Blaise Pascal Quotes

I am one of the great army of mediocrity which constitutes the majority.

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

Normalcy is not interesting.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

I look like everyone.

If everything is the same, nothing is special.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

Mediocrity is underrated.

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

I am just like everyone else.

I don't want to be special.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

It's not human nature to be great. It's human nature to survive, to be average and do what you have to do to get by. That is normal. When you have something good happen, it's the special people that can stay focused and keep paying attention to detail, working to get better and not being satisfied with what they have accomplished.

You'll turn out ordinary if you're not careful.

To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest common denominator to make sure no-one becomes too fine for our touted democracy. We are almost at the point of regarding every virtue as elitist.

I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.

We're as average as everyday's wash.

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

Normal means lack of imagination and creativity.

The good is the enemy of the best.

Effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. So that team that thinks it's ready to see you, they think what they've seen on film, they ain't saw what film shows, because every day is a new day. Every moment is a new moment. So now you've got to go out and show them that I'm a different creature now, than I was five minutes ago, cause I'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre, and ain't no man in here okay with just basic.

He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.

People come to New York to be different, but I go to Starbucks to be the same.