It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.
Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.
We live in an age of mediocrity.
Mediocrity's like a spot on a shirt—it never comes off.
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
There ain't any first-raters this year .... We don't have any John Shermans or Theodore Roosevelts. We've got a lot of second-raters and Warren G. Harding is the best of the second-raters.
I was not real good at anything. I was just OK at everything.
Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.
Mediocrity is gonna kill the world before Armageddon ever does.
The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
Our country is slowly but surely moving - and I've seen it over and over again in many instances in government - toward a culture of mediocrity.
I was not a great student.
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.
Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.
