Category: #Mediocrity

Mediocrity Quotes

My inspiration for this page was given to me by my new aquired friend Andrew and to whom I dedicate this page…

Wish you… as well as to all my readers, to find a sparkle of wisdom in these quotes, that shall illuminate your path/s….

๐Ÿ–– & ๐Ÿงก

Always in my heart and thoughts, to my dearest copacel Emily, my sweet bumblebee, may you always seak greatness and never ask for permission and always be guided by the light of papi’s simple way of life called by giants upon shoulders we walk upon, simply …

“Sapere Aude”

ORIGIN OF MEDIOCRITY

First recorded in 1400โ€“50; late Middle English mediocrite, from Middle French mediocrite, from Latin mediocritฤt-, stem of mediocritฤs โ€œmiddle state, moderationโ€; equivalent to mediocre + -ity.

Mediocrity

Definitions from The American Heritageยฎ Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

noun The state or quality of being mediocre.

noun Mediocre ability, achievement, or performance.

noun One that displays mediocre qualities.

from The Century Dictionary.

noun The character or state of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate; specifically, a moderate degree of mental ability.

noun Moderation; temperance.

noun A mediocre person; one of moderate capacity or ability; hence, a person of little note or repute; one who is little more than a nobody.

noun Synonyms Medium, Average, etc. See mean, n.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

noun The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate.

noun obsolete Moderation; temperance.

noun A mediocre person; — used disparagingly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

noun The quality of being intermediate between two extremes; a mean.

noun obsolete A middle course of action; moderation, balance.

noun uncountable The condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard.

noun An individual with mediocre abilities or achievements.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

noun ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding

noun a person of second-rate ability or value

โ€œPeople who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how great their other talents.โ€

Andrew Carnegie

โ€œMediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.โ€

Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Valley of Fear”

โ€œIdleness is fatal only to the mediocre.โ€

Albert Camus

โ€œIn the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.โ€

Robert G. Ingersoll

โ€œLife without madness is mediocrity.โ€

Nelou Keramati

โ€œPeople don’t want to think.

And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think.

But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty.

So they’ll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking.

Anyone who makes a virtue – a highly intellectual virtue – out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt…

They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors.

They don’t know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bearโ€

Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”

โ€œThe highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.โ€

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

โ€œGet off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity.

Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.โ€

Ryan Lilly

โ€œThe statistics all point towards the same conclusion: we have a global outbreak of fuckarounditis.โ€

Martin Berkhan
“The Leangains Method: The Art of Getting Ripped. Researched, Practiced, Perfected.”

โ€œNietzsche talked about โ€œgood and badโ€ in the context of nobility.

The nobles regarded the exceptional as good and the mediocre as bad.

When the โ€œgood and badโ€ of the nobility was replaced by the โ€œgood and evilโ€ of the mob, exceptionalism was declared evil, and mediocrity was sanctified.

The holy mediocrities are now everywhere.

The kingdom of mediocrity is absolute โ€ฆ

absolute shit!โ€

David Sinclair
“The Wolf Tamers:
How They Made the Strong Weak”

โ€œThereโ€™s nothing brave in pushing myself to the edge of my comfort zone.

Bravery is about refusing to be in any kind of comfort zone in the first place.โ€

Craig D. Lounsbrough

โ€œWhenever a book or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that whoever writes for fools always finds a large audience.โ€

Arthur Schopenhauer
“Religion: a Dialogue”

โ€œMediocre people promote mediocrity.

Dont hire mediocre people.

Instead, hire people who strive for greatness and they’ll spread that greatness throughout the company.โ€

Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr,
CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

โ€œMediocrity is never a desirable destination….

At least, not when practice might transform mediocrity to competence, or even skill.’

Napoleon Bonapartโ€

Allison Pataki
“The Queen’s Fortune”

โ€œWhen leaders tolerate mediocrity, itโ€™s a cancer that spreads like wildfire.โ€

Frank Sonnenberg
“Listen to Your Conscience:
That’s Why You Have One”

โ€œThe death of quality foreshadows the death of humanity.

What is the point of humanity if it does not produce the highest quality and excellence?

A humanity that is not ascending is descending.

As it is, the crushing weight of averageness and mediocrity presses down on everything and makes all high things flat, drab and dull.

All the tall poppies have to die.

The only tall poppies the mediocre like are those associated with wealth, beauty and fame.

They despise the intelligent, the artistic and the technical.โ€

Joe Dixon
“The Irresistible Rise of Mediocre Man:
The War On Excellence”

โ€œWe can choose to believe in ourselves, and thus to strive, to risk, to persevere, and to achieve.

Or we can choose to cling to security and mediocrity.

We can choose to set no limits on ourselves, to set high goals and dream big dreams.

We can use those dreams to fuel our spirits with passion.โ€

Bob Rotella
“How Champions Think:
In Sports and in Life”

โ€œThe greatest enemy of enlightenment is โ€œcommon senseโ€.

In day-today life, common sense โ€œworksโ€, which is why ordinary people revere it.

Most managers in the workplace are good at common sense i.e. knowing how to play the system, to obey the rules, to pander to higher managers, to avoid radical ideas, to highlight their modest successes and blame others for their failures, and to stick firmly within the domain of the conventional, acceptable and uncontroversial.

Unfortunately, theyโ€™re hopeless at everything else.

All geniuses, on the other hand, can โ€œseeโ€ far beyond the realm of common sense.

They use imagination, intuition and visionary ideas as their guides, not the trivialities of common sense.

What would you rather be โ€“ a middle manager with a comfortable common sense life, or a genius who has unlocked the door to the mysteries of existence?

Tragically for humanity, most people aspire to be middle managers.

Thatโ€™s the extent of their ambition, thatโ€™s as far as their horizons stretch.

These are the sort of people that Nietzsche scornfully branded as โ€œLast Men.โ€

Adam Weishaupt
“The Illuminati’s Six Dimensional Universe”

โ€œNothing is good but mediocrity.

The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end.โ€

Blaise Pascal “Pensรฉes”

โ€œI no longer follow the voices of the sane.

I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not.

This is the paradox of philosophers—trying to understand mass delusion among great people that have faith and knowledge, yet they canโ€™t graduate from their institutions of religious theology to apply the knowledge they have gained for the shifting of Zion—- from words to action;

from comfort to uncomfortable;

from self serving to self giving;

from competition to supporting;

to tradition to unity;

from bias to acceptance;

from me to us.โ€

Shannon L. Alder

โ€œMediocrity 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.โ€

Amelia E. Barr

โ€œAcceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness.โ€

Shannon L. Alder

โ€œYou will always feel insignificant if you never do anything to change the world or another person’s life, other than your own.โ€

Shannon L. Alder

โ€œCaution is the path to mediocrity.

Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.โ€

Frank Herbert
“God Emperor of Dune”

โ€œI’m going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid.

I don’t find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you.

How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity?

How else do we define cowardice?โ€

Frank Herbert
“Children of Dune”
With ๐Ÿงก