There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius..
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy….
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and h….
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it..
The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed..
Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the pu….
Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice..
Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it..
Only mediocrities rise to the top in a system that won't tolerate wave making..
Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men..
We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to ….
We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology..
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking..
If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life..
Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you..
To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society.
I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour..
Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further..
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun t….
A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence..
The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets..