#mediocrity

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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

The function of a genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.


Hugh Trevor-Roper


#function #genius #give #mediocrity #new

...simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.... A moderately gifted person has to keep his or her gifts all bottled up until, in a manner of speaking, he or she gets drunk at a wedding and tap-dances on the coffee table like Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers. We have a name for him or her. We call him or her an "exhibitionist." How do we reward such an exhibitionist? We say to him or her the next morning, "Wow! Were you ever drunk last night!


Kurt Vonnegut


#giftedness #mediocrity #communication

It is a terrible moment when you realise you’ll never do all the best things this world can offer; that you’ll never have a superlative experience. You’ll go to a Gala Bingo rather than Vegas; get your own office, but not be a CEO; and get a gravestone, but not in Poet’s Corner. You’ll never sleep with the girls on the TV. And all of this mediocrity was made worse by the fact of its inescapable prevalence.


Django Wylie


#life #life-lessons #mediocrity #experience

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.


Benjamin Disraeli


#mediocrity #observe #talk

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


Arthur Conan Doyle


#higher #instantly #itself #knows #mediocrity

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.


Paul Gauguin


#appetite #cultivated #demand #every #fresh

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.


Charles G. Dawes


#dignity #mediocrity #preserve #requires