Best 347 quotes in «mediocrity quotes» category

The worst to ever happen to a person who aims at the sky is to fall on the tallest mountain; the best that can happen to a person who aims at the ceiling of his room is to fall on the carpet of his floor!

They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence?

[T]his is how it will remain until ... literary criticism discards its sociological, religious, philosophical and other textbooks, which only help mediocrity to admire itself. Only then will you be free to say what you please. [F]or God's sake stop that irrelevant chitchat.

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.

Those who do not continuously seek knowledge are content to settle for mediocrity.

Time is relative. In human life, time is experience. The faster you archive a significant experience to your memory, the more you live in the same clock time. In physics, experience is represented by the distance traveled, and this entire thing is called the Relativity of Time. I want to age and die through archiving my experiences, not watching my biological clock. Please don't waste my clock time with mediocrity and egotism, let me use it towards serving to others.

To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore all.

To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere.

To become a better you, be diligent and never let the charms of procrastination and excuses seduce you to fall for mediocrity.

Until you press the switch button of the light in your room on, you shall always have light in your room and still leave in darkness.

To be ridiculed for your genius is better than to be praised for your mediocrity.

To have 'order', an atmosphere of 'positivity' must be subtly inserted. When you are mass of maneuver, mediocrity never gives up anything voluntarily without some sort of exchange.

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

Wanting to be the best in what you do but unwilling to be slain by critics on the way to your top is a recipe to remain mediocre...

we are all born educated, but we need education to be educated

Was he to bray this in profoundest brass Arointing his dreams with fugal requiems? Was he to company vastest things defunct With a blubber of tom-toms harrowing the sky? Scrawl a tragedian's testament? Prolong His active force in an inactive dirge, Which, let the tall musicians call and call, Should merely call him dead? Pronounce amen Through choirs infolded to the outmost clouds? Because he built a cabin who once planned Loquacious columns by the ructive sea? Because he turned to salad-beds again?

We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness.

What right have such men to represent Christianity—as if it were an institution for getting up idiots genteelly?

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.

We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.

What does it mean to be an 'open source' society? What does one mean when one says one has an 'open mind'? Open source means that its a society everybody can work on improving. It has a synergy that allows the best minds to float on top, since there is no entropical hierarchy of mediocrity - once everything stays fluid there is the odd chance for genius elements to actually lead. Such is the case now in Turkey. The protesters are a fluid synergy that have no entropical leadership, and thus the most brilliant PR moves are made by the resistance, who are opposed by the worst sort of mediocrity that is totally at odds with reality. An 'open mind' follows a similar process, but in this case the entropy hides in the hierarchy of ideas that is implanted in the brain: once a person follows mediocre ideas - such as the 'idea' that 'marriage is the meaning of life' or 'having a job is the purpose of existence' etc - then the phenomenon of the 'open mind' becomes already impossible, for there is an internal hierarchy of entropy present that will prevent any sort of original impulse to have the meaning it truly has. Hence, the only way to escape the mediocrity of ones own mind is to allow anything to build and revise it.

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

We need to get acquainted with mediocrity to notice greatness.

We’re capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.

When we are honest about the limitations we are self imposing it becomes necessary to cry out with determination and state you’ve had enough of the mediocrity of stagnation.

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.

Without self -discipline, potentials are useless and mediocrity becomes the plague of life.

when you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the best preparation for the momentous moment and dream as if you are fighting a battalion of tasks

When you realize who you are, what you can do and the true champion in you, do not slumber and do not feel okay; do not conform any longer when you get to know the true cost of conformity that leads to mediocrity and the death of true destiny; with a true humility, wisdom, understanding and courage, question the status quo and do the undone! Do not just do anything when you get to know you can and must do something. Do the small things that are worthy and solemn with a good heart, and don’t let the great mountains remain unconquered when you have that strength to conquer them! When you are born with the heart of an eagle, and when you have the wings of the eagle, don’t ever fly like the butterfly or else, when one day you journey to the journeys end and God prints a statement of all that you should and could have done to you, you shall have just one statement to say in regret: ‘ahh, I should have done that; Lord, please give me another chance!’, but it shall be too late for you! The world awaits you; wake up! Your true destiny is slumbering; arise and do something!

When you really get this whole idea of living a sensual lifestyle and really start owning it, it will set you up for the best kind of life you've ever imagined.

When you tolerate mediocrity, you get more of it.

Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone’s choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing the ultimate things for yourself, someone will hire you by choosing the average thing for you.

As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.

Your career is your business. You are its CEO. Complacency breeds failure. As the CEO of your career, you must continually improve your skills, especially the art of communication.

Your failure may put smiles on people’s faces while your success squeezes tears from their eyes. Don’t be deceived; it’s just a charm to entice you to fall in love with mediocrity!

You’ve got to be sensually innovative to stay at the top of your game. Modern love life is not for the lazy or unimaginative, unless mediocrity is your thing.

You were born for more than just living in mediocrity and dying after your time here evaporates.

A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

You are a manager nonetheless who you are. There is a business worth keeping and you are the manager of that business. Yes, the business of your life. There is a big asset worth managing. Yes, your choices. As a manager of your own life, your choices are your assets. They form the pivot for the doom or boom of the business of your life. Some will be great managers and others will collapse the business of their lives by their choices or stay in mediocrity with the business of their lives.

You cannot be as E-ffective when you are IN-fected.

You have two options to choose from as an aspiring achiever; either you become excellent or you become excellent! Mediocrity is never an option!

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage.

Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.