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mediocrity praise
It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately. Luc de Clapiers
mediocrity rise-above stakes
We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174 Tom Robbins
mediocrity want fit
The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you. Seth Godin
mediocrity exhausting
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
mediocrity quiet stills
A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. John Suckling
mediocrity sake majority
Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence. Friedrich Nietzsche
mediocrity kill-me
Everything about mediocrity kills me. Ivanka Trump
mediocrity painting public-speaking
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. Jean de la Bruyere
mediocrity speech painting
There are certain things in which mediocrity 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!
speech honest emotion
Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it. Robert Orben
speech free-speech
We shouldn't have free speech. Robin Quivers
speech whisky havens
Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches. Winston Churchill
speech saws kind
We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw. Wendell Berry
speech common remember
It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated. W. Somerset Maugham
speech nine pounds
I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds. Joseph Addison
speech association should
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association. Mahatma Gandhi
speech
In general those who nothing have to say Contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. James Russell Lowell
speech language ritual
When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual. Ellen Goodman
paintings
It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished. Cy Twombly
painting vans ifs
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them. Bill Watterson
painting easy difficult
For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult. Edgar Degas
painting people stop
People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'
painting shows simpler
I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.
painting materials
Painting is so much more than the materials. Brian Johnson
painting realistic vain
How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all. Blaise Pascal
painting eloquence
Eloquence is the painting of thought ...
painting canvas problem
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting. Alfred Sisley