#mediocrity

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my academic career was indifferent to the point of beauty- I was so unremarkable, in every way, that the unvarying precision of my mediocrity achieves a kind of loveliness


Mil Millington


#humor #mediocrity #beauty

Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell--the hell of your own meanness.


Charlotte Brontë


#genius #meanness #mediocrity #poetry #funny

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.


Fulton J. Sheen


#genius #mediocrity #pays #tribute

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have decided that high achievers, who are called overachievers, owe their surplus ambition to a defect in mothering (either too little or too much). We want to admire but think we have a right not to be intimidated. We dislike feeling inferior to an ideal. So away with ideals, with essences. The only ideals allowed are healthy ones -- those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.


Susan Sontag


#ambition #democracy #egalitarianism #equality #essence

Often people that settle in life are those that only do what they can with what they have and where they are. Never settle for someone that didn't know your worth from the beginning or build a life without God in it. Live beyond your low expectations.


Shannon L. Alder


#purpose #settling #life

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.


Rene Magritte


#atom bomb #bomb #mediocrity #present

Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.


Joseph Heller


#major-major #mediocre #mediocrity #men

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.


Ernst Lubitsch


#i #make #mediocrity #only #pictures

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