#mediocrity

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#genius #mediocrity #republic

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#mediocrity

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity. ↗

— Clea Duvall

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Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. ↗

— Armand Assante

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It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#better #everywhere #excellence #exemplary #found

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...They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#greatness #mediocrity #dreams

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that. ↗

— Kim Cattrall

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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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