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"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them." »Joseph Heller
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"Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them." »Joseph Heller
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"Who aims at excellence will be above mediocrity; who aims at mediocrity will be far short of it." »Burmese Proverb
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"Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity." »Charles Ives
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"Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous." »Robert G. Ingersoll
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"mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man." »Horace
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"mediocrity can talk but it is for genius to observe." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity." »James Fenimore Cooper
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"It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation." »Roberto Benigni
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"Tolerating mediocrity is as dangerous as inviting failure" »Oscar Bonga Nomvete
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"Tolerating mediocrity is as dangerous as inviting failure" »Oscar Bonga Nomvete
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"mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity." »Charles Gates Dawes
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"mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius." »Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake..." »Nelson Boswell
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"mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." »Conan Doyle
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"There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment." »Norman Vincent Peale
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"Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making." »Fred Allen
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"A life that is defended by excuses has become comfortable in defeat, it has settled for mediocrity and is destined for failure." »Oscar Bonga Nomvete
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"Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary." »Warren Bennis
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"Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up." »Michael J. Gelb
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"There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity." »Buck Rodgers
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"All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying,losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy." »Scott Alexander, film writer and director
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"Anybody who accepts mediocrity - in school, on the job, in life - is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises." »Charles Knight
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"The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior. Ordinarily, this means that any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage." »Bruce Henderson
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"What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over." »Chateaubriand
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"It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals." »Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"
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