M Quotes
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“Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.”
“Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.”
“Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.”
“Mediocre love is for those who deny themselves depth of emotion, the key to which is sensuality.”
Source: Sensual Lifestyle
“Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
“Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
“Mediocre men sometimes fear great office, and when they do not aim at it, or when they refuse it, all that is to be concluded is that they are aware of their mediocrity.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.”
“Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.”
“Mediocre minds discuss people, smart minds discuss ideas, gods discuss less and lift others more.”
Source: Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism
“Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.”
“Mediocre people are the most dangerous people in the world.”
“Mediocre people don't like high achievers and high achievers don't like mediocre people.”
“Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.”
“Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character.”
“Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They may pray and worship more or less regularly, and they usually stay clear of publicly disgraceful crimes, but they are lukewarm, colorless. Seldom or never do they read a serious book about prayer or study to learn more about God and His plans, to discover how to be humble and chaste and patient. They are always too busy for the one thing necessary.”
“Mediocre people promote mediocrity. Dont hire mediocre people. Instead, hire people who strive for greatness and they'll spread that greatness throughout the company.”
“Mediocre products with great sales teams always beat great products with mediocre sales teams.”
“Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.”
“Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.”
“Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.”
“Mediocrity always attacks excellence.”
“Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.”
“Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.”
Source: Curiosities of literature
“Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, level, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.”
“Mediocrity has a way of keeping demons from the door.”
“Mediocrity has allowed me to float by without too much pressure or judgement”
Source: A Pho Love Story
“Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.”
Source: Novels and Tales by Goethe
“Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.”
“Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.”
“Mediocrity is a choice. I hope you choose to say ‘NO!”
Source: Soul Food: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“Mediocrity is a hand-rail.”
“Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.”
“Mediocrity is a talent for mediocrity.”
“Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.”
“Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.”
“Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.”
“Mediocrity is contextual.”
“Mediocrity is easy. Excellence takes work!”
“Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.”
“Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.”
“Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.”
“Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.”
“Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance and rhetoric. Not therapeutic understanding.”
“Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.”
“Mediocrity is not worth the trip.”
“Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.”
“Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.”
Source: The poet in the world
“Mediocrity is self-inflicted. Genius is self-bestowed.”
Source: The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe