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• Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Mediocrity, Talent

• 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.

  Sophia Loren

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Persistence, Mediocrity, Enthusiasm, Talent

• The height of mediocrity is still low.

  Vanna Bonta

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mediocrity, Excellence

• Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

  Vanna Bonta

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Mediocrity, Passion, Hate

• Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn’t to be found.

  Kathleen Norris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mediocrity, Worth

• Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

  Fulton John Sheen

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Envy, Mediocrity

• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  Victor Hugo

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Mediocrity, Lofty

• Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Tags in Mediocrity, Heroism

• There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

  Paul Gauguin

  Tags in Mediocrity, Cultivated

• The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

  James Fenimore Cooper

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Mediocrity

• People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Tags in Mediocrity, Impressive, Talents

• The only sin is mediocrity.

  Martha Graham

  Tags in Mediocrity

• The world doesn’t need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

  Anne Rice

  Tags in Mediocrity

• Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

  Unknown

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Mediocrity

• Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

  Blaise Pascal

  Tags in Mediocrity

• In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous.

  Robert G. Ingersoll

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Mediocrity

• 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!

  Jean de La Bruyere

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Mediocrity

• Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

  William Ewart Gladstone

  Tags in Mediocrity

• Mediocrity doesn’t mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

  Ayn Rand

  Tags in Mediocrity, Envy

• The middlebrow is the man, or woman, of middlebred intelligence who ambles and saunters now on this side of the hedge, now on that, in pursuit of no single object, neither art itself nor life itself, but both mixed indistinguishably, and rather nastily, with money, fame, power, or prestige.

  Virginia Woolf

  Tags in Mediocrity