Mittelmäßigkeit / Mediocrity Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Mittelmäßigkeit / Mediocrity:

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity. Allan Sloan

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

James Fenimore Cooper

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Frank Lloyd Wright

In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get.

Bill Bryson

Do you know what the root of mediation is? Mediocrity!

Joe Jamail

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.

Armand Assante

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Vladimir Nabokov

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

Mario Batali

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Allan Sloan

Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and perhaps an even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you're supposed to listen to if you're gay... What are you supposed to look like? What's your body supposed to look like?

John Cameron Mitchell

Mediocrity is underrated.

Mary-Louise Parker

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

Pope Francis

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Benjamin Disraeli

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.

Nelson Boswell

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

Ernst Lubitsch

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

John W. Gardner

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

Robert Baldwin

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean de la Bruyere

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

Anne Rice

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Ambrose Bierce

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn

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

Andrew Carnegie

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.

Jackie Cooper

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Fulton J. Sheen

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

Eric Hoffer

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

George Will

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

William Hurt

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

Henry S. Haskins

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

Kim Cattrall

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

Jimmy Breslin

Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.

Edi Rama

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

Sean Penn