Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
Pumpkin pie is a living symbol of mediocrity. The best pumpkin pie you ever ate wasn't all that much different from the worst pumpkin pie you ever ate.
Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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.
Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.
Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.
The mediocrity principle simply states that you aren't special. The universe does not revolve around you; this planet isn't privileged in any unique way; your country is not the perfect product of directed, intentional fate; and that tuna sandwich you had for lunch was not plotting to give you indigestion.
All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.
. . . beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.
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.
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.
In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.
We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.
I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.
Media, the plural of mediocrity.