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#mediocrity

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #mediocrity




Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.


Joseph Heller


#born #mediocre #mediocrity #men #some

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.


Tahar Ben Jelloun


#because #bottom #generalized #intellectuals #international

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.


Hank Ketcham


#burn #business #clearly #himself #humor

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.


Charles Lamb


#am #another #being #encourage #excellent

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.


John Stuart Mill


#ascendant #general #mankind #mediocrity #power

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.


Bruce Henderson


#competitors #corporate #demonstrate #disadvantage #distinct

my academic career was indifferent to the point of beauty- I was so unremarkable, in every way, that the unvarying precision of my mediocrity achieves a kind of loveliness


Mil Millington


#humor #mediocrity #beauty

Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell--the hell of your own meanness.


Charlotte Brontë


#genius #meanness #mediocrity #poetry #funny

Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better by how they move.


Shannon L. Alder


#apathy #inspiration #mediocrity #passiveness #success

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.


Scott Alexander


#cheating #dying #easy #evil #good






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