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| Quote for category - mediocrity |
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Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
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Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but
with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.
- in mediocrity
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and
generally console them in their mediocrity.
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Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either
way.
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You always admire what you really don't understand.
- in mediocrity
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Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those
who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
- in mediocrity
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Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to
hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
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