Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Plan for the sustainability of your success so that you do not drift back to failure and mediocrity.
Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent- a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.
If God wanted you to live a mediocre life, He wouldn't have made you so awesome. Never apologize for being designed to succeed.
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.
For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
Pursuing your dreams in spite of opposition is a revolution against mediocrity. By challenging yourself, you transform those around you.
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
My limited theater experience was when I was a kid starting out: two or three plays. I was good in one and mediocre in the other. My problem is that I have other interests.
In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.
Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.
I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.
You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.
