(193 quotes found)
“A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success."Persevere, persevere!" cry the homilists all, Themselves, day and night, persevering to bawl."Remember the fable of tortoise and hare -- The one at the goal while the other is --where?" Why, back there in Dreamland, renewing his lease Of life, all his muscles preserving the peace, The goal and the rival forgotten alike, And the long fatigue of the needless hike. His spirit a-squat in the grass and the dew Of the dogless Land beyond the Stew, He sleeps, like a saint in a holy place, A winner of all that is good in a race. --Sukker Uffro”
Ambrose Bierce
“The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;”
Chinese Proverbs
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
Jim Rohn
“The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?”
Janis Joplin
“There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking”
Jean de la Bruyere
“Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of "artistic" expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.”
Alfred North Whitehead
“With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. The script must be something that has the power to do this”
Akira Kurosawa
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
