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Tag Name "Mediocrity" (316)

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Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.
Haruki Murakami
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Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Mediocrity has a way of keeping demons from the door.
Marie Arana
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Mediocrity is underrated.
Mary-Louise Parker
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Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.
Emmylou Harris
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Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.
Robert Downey, Jr.
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Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
Baron de Montesquieu
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Mediocrity is contextual.
David Foster Wallace
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Mediocrity is always in a rush but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.
Amelia Barr
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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.
William E. Gladstone
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Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
James C. Collins
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
Joseph Joubert
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Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.
Denise Levertov
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Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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Mediocrity cherishes rules as for me, I hate them I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.
Gustave Flaubert
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
Eugene Ionesco
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Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.
Vanna Bonta
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Mediocrity is not worth the trip.
Sergio Marchionne
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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.
Blaise Pascal
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Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.
Bob Seger
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
Joseph Joubert
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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