Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luc de Clapiers

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

David Foster Wallace

Mediocrity is contextual.

Amelia Barr

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.

Thomas Mann

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

Tom Robbins

We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174

Seth Godin

The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.

Seth Godin

It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

Seth Godin

Defending mediocrity is exhausting.

John Suckling

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

Minna Antrim

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius

Eugene Delacroix

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Richelle Mead

It's not my fault so much as my genius,

Zinedine Zidane

If Zizou kept his temper, he would not be the genius that he is

Henry Adams

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.

John Green

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

Julian Barnes

There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

Joshua Reynolds

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.