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Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity.
Author: L.A. Safian
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
Author: Sir Max Beerbohm
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Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
Author: Theodor Reik
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Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Author: Charles G. Dawes
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Author: Peter F. Drucker
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Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating.
Author: Icelandic Proverb
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Author: Jean Giraudoux
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Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
Author: William M. Winans
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Author: Joseph Heller
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Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.
Author: Kathleen Norris
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All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
Author: Scott Alexander
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
Author: Claude Bernard
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Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
Author: William M. Winans
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The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
Author: Nicolas Chamfort
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.
Author: Balthasar Gracian
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
Author: Uta Hagen
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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
Author: Cesare Lombroso
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Author: Sorphia Loren
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Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Author: --fulton J. Sheen
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A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity.
Author: Anonymous
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
Author: Claude Bernard
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The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.".
Author: Pauline Kael
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There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
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Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning.
Author: Theodor Reik
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Author: Lily Tomlin
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Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
Author: Chet Atkins
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Author: Andrew Carnegie
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"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
Author: Ayn Rand
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
Author: John Stuart Mill
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A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Author: Mary Kay Ash
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