#mediocrity

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#column #constant #go #gold #great

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#could #everlasting #fashionable #grand #great

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#atom bomb #bomb #mediocrity #present

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#gifts #mediocrity #recognition #sherlock-holmes #talent

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bore #boredom #boring #contagious #cynic

Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#mediocrity #equality

You will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person's life, other than your own. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#apathy #insignificance #mediocrity #change

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#mediocrity #excellence

Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#major-major #mediocre #mediocrity #men

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard. ↗

— Ernst Lubitsch

#i #make #mediocrity #only #pictures