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    There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance.

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    The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.

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

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    The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

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    The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.

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    The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

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    They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity.

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    Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class - think this way and you are doomed to mediocrity.

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    Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

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    Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

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    Today is the most important day of our lives.

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    Today we've learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.

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    To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

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    To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.

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    To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

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    Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

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    Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity

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    Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

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    The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.

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    We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

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    The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.

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    We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

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    We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.

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    We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.

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    We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174

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    We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

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    What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

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    What the crowd requires is mediocrity of the highest order.

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    When I think of normality I think of mediocrity

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    When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the passing comforts it bestows - we will certainly attain it. One hopes and prays it doesn't take an historic crisis for us to demand and reward excellence in public service.

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    Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.

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    When I imagine God creating each one of us and planting a purpose deep in our hearts, I never imagine that purpose being mediocrity.

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    What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

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    You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.

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    You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.

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    Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort

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    You can’t talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, you’ve got to think positive.

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    All through high school and college, his judo coach and older teammates would often say to him, "You have the talent and the strength, and you practice enough, but you just don't have the desire." They were probably right. He lacked that drive to win at all costs, which is why he would often make it to the semifinals and the finals but lose the all-important championship match.

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    A gifted violin player in danger of becoming a virtuoso and thus too attached to his instrument handed it over to the Oneida authorities and never played again. When a visiting Canadian teacher complained that the community did not foster “genius or special talent,” Noyes was delighted, replying, “We never expected or desired to produce a Byron, a Napoleon, or a Michelangelo.” You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

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    All people are standing; you got to standout! All people are breaking grounds; you got to breakthrough grounds! Don't settle for less; rise up and stand tall in what you do!

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    An artist must take comfort that there's no satisfaction whatsoever with one's creation, just a dissatisfaction that keeps one a step away from sliding into mediocrity.

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    A mediocre writer serves a life sentence. He has to go on. It's too late to change professions. He has to go on till the bitter end. Until death comes to get him. Only death can save him from his mediocrity. His writing is "not without merit," that's what we say about the mediocre writer. For him, that's the pinnacle of achievement, to produce books that are not without merit. You really do have to be mediocre to go on living once you've realized that.

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    An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.

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    And I — my head oppressed by horror — said: "Master, what is it that I hear? Who are those people so defeated by their pain?"       And he to me: "This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.       They now commingle with the coward angels, the company of those who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart.       The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened, have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them — even the wicked cannot glory in them.

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    Compromise is a sign you'll pass on your way to mediocrity.

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    Attitude is your number one weapon against mediocrity.

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    Birds that cannot fly high into the sky rejoice exceedingly and sing sweet melodies when they get to the top of the tallest tree on the highest mountain!

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    Brockhurst, the champion of individualism, was soon launched on his favorite topic. "The great fault of the American nation, which is the fault of republics, is the reduction of everything to the average. Our universities are simply the expression of the forces that are operating outside. We are business colleges purely and simply, because we as a nation have only one ideal—the business ideal." "That's a big statement," said Regan. "It's true. Twenty years ago we had the ideal of the lawyer, of the doctor, of the statesman, of the gentleman, of the man of letters, of the soldier. Now the lawyer is simply a supernumerary enlisting under any banner for pay; the doctor is overshadowed by the specialist with his business development of the possibilities of the rich; we have politicians, and politics are deemed impossible for a gentleman; the gentleman cultured, simple, hospitable, and kind, is of the dying generation; the soldier is simply on parade." "Wow!" said Ricketts, jingling his chips. "They're off." "Everything has conformed to business, everything has been made to pay. Art is now a respectable career—to whom? To the business man. Why? Because a profession that is paid $3,000 to $5,000 a portrait is no longer an art, but a blamed good business. The man who cooks up his novel according to the weakness of his public sells a hundred thousand copies. Dime novel? No; published by our most conservative publishers—one of our leading citizens. He has found out that scribbling is a new field of business. He has convinced the business man. He has made it pay.

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    Change makers take risks and are ready to die for excellence than to give excuses and live for mediocrity.

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    A positive Mindset attracts Success like a magnet and a negative one loves to marry failure, procrastination and comfortable environment that sobs in mediocrity and impossibility.