They keep creating new ways to celebrate mediocrity.
Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.
Our party's most outstanding mediocrity.
Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity. . . are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.
Half talent is no talent.
Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.
Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich.
Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.
Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.
Passionately protest mediocrity.
Regulators are power-lusting mediocrities.
The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.
nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.
Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.
I am incapable of mediocrity.
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.