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“It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.”

Should Important Artist Perfect Common Effort Mistake Photography Errors Strive Photographer Mediocrity Important Work

Author:Edward Steichen

“It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.”

Praise Mediocrity

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.”

Looks Philosophy Today Philosophical Philosopher Proof Mediocrity

Author:Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.”

Firsts Lasts Artist Perfect Progress Cycles Mediocrity Masterpiece

Book:Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

“All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.”

Character Greatness Individuality Dependent Mediocrity Individualism

Author:James F. Cooper

“The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.”

Revolution Pressure Violent Overwhelming Mediocrity Depressing Exalted Glaciers Sluggish Indomitable

Book:Christianity and Culture

Source: Christianity and Culture

“It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.”

Law Song Atheism Spring Gun Positive Atheism Realms Mediocrity

Book:Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell

Source: Early prose writings of James Russell Lowell

“As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.”

Men Wells Individual Can Do He Man All Things Mediocrity Mediocre

Book:Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...

Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...

“Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.”

Men Quality Masters Civilization Drawing Admire March Mediocrity Vans Columns Formation Totems

Book:The pursuit of humor and other essays

Source: The pursuit of humor and other essays

“The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.”

Feelings Lovers Paradox Thinker Mediocrity

Book:Philosophical Fragments

Source: Philosophical Fragments

“To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.”

Men Writing Use He Man Genius Communicate Mediocrity Stamps Few Words

Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Mediocrity Signatures Inconsistency

Author:James C. Collins

“It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.”

Earth Evil Perfect Crime Mediocrity Rome Burned Nero

Author:Ned Rorem

“I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.”

Thinking Normal Ordinary Scare Mediocrity Stable Think Of Me

Author:Gillian Anderson

“You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.”

Knows Life Is Politician Mediocrity Knowing God Larger Than Life

Author:Joe Klein

“Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.”

“As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.”

Want Art Used Pay Boys Media Entertainment Celebrate Mediocrity Upstairs

Author:Tom Petty

“Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.”

Needs Easy Commitment Good Things Mediocrity Take Time Adages

Author:Bob Seger

“It is puzzling to me that otherwise sensitive people develop a real docility about the obvious necessity of eating, at least once a day, in order to stay alive. Often they lose their primal enjoyment of flavors and odors and textures to the point of complete unawareness. And if ever they question this progressive numbing-off, they shrug helplessly in the face of mediocrity everywhere. Bit by bit, hour by hour, they say, we are being forced to accept the not-so-good as the best, since there is little that is even good to compare it with.”

“They filled us full of false illusions and promiscuity, and they led us down that class-less road of mediocrity.”

Sex Class Illusion Filled Mediocrity Promiscuity

Author:Ray Davies

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