Quotes:Some men are born med
iocre, some men achieve med
iocrity, and some men have med
iocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. (Catch-22)
View quotes by Joseph HellerWealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in med
iocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the med
iocre.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheGetting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with med
iocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
View quotes by Sophia Loren'Qu'ils mangent de la br
ioche.' (Let them eat cake.)
View quotes by Marie AntoinetteSometimes I worry about being a success in a med
iocre world.
View quotes by Lily TomlinTalking about producer Nellee Hooper: 'He's not one for med
iocre experiences.'
View quotes by BjorkAll good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and med
iocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
View quotes by Scott AlexanderMed
iocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
View quotes by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleIt is cruel to discover one's med
iocrity only when it is too late. - Of Human Bondage
View quotes by W Somerset MaughamThere are certain things in which med
iocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
View quotes by Jean De La BruyereThe most med
iocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
View quotes by Simone De BeauvoirThere is always a heavy demand for fresh med
iocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite
View quotes by Paul GauguinThe idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable med
iocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
View quotes by John GardnerIt's more than magnificent - it's med
iocre.
View quotes by Samuel GoldwynWomen want med
iocre men, and men are working to be as med
iocre as possible.
View quotes by Margaret MeadWe must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the med
iocre.
View quotes by Uta HagenGreat innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of med
iocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
View quotes by Theodor ReikWhich is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Id
iocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?
View quotes by Aldous HuxleyMed
iocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
View quotes by Benjamin DisraeliMen of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a med
iocrity of success.
View quotes by Dale CarnegieWe gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in med
iocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
View quotes by Charles LambThe real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of med
iocrity.
View quotes by Eric HofferWith no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too med
iocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
View quotes by Simone WeilA bestseller is the gilded tomb of a med
iocre talent.
View quotes by Logan Pearsall SmithOnly med
iocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
View quotes by Max BeerbohmHe was a tremendous observer of the id
iocies of life and brought them brilliantly to the screen and the stage. [on Dave Allen]
View quotes by Gabriel ByrneHe crossed the line between eccentricity and id
iocy far too often for someone who was supposed to be running English cricket [on Ted Dexter]
View quotes by Ian BothamA med
iocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.
View quotes by Mary Kay AshAny sort of pretension induces med
iocrity in art and life alike
View quotes by Margot FonteynThe appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred med
iocrities
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