I am a proud, gay person of color and I will not be intimidated into mediocrity or legislated into conformity!
Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the Nietzsche who denounces the insipidity and mediocrity that result from democracy’s levelling impulses could not be more acute.
Because I have a dog, it’s easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird ‘Mastermind’-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I’ve no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities.
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.
Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There’s a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession – and I don’t find that to be true at all.
I have a problem with honoring mediocrity in so many cases over teams that have great years.
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
We shouldn’t accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.
To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.
Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity.
Not all offers I get are exciting and inspiring. I would rather sit at home and not work than jump into mediocrity for the sake of just moving ahead. If it’s a good script, I would sacrifice my personal time and grab it.
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.
There is a downside to affordable technology, and that’s mediocrity. I mean, just ’cause you can afford it don’t mean you can do it.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
There has been an obvious effort to play it safe, to make ‘Bonanza’ a good family show that would offend no one and hit a consistent level of mediocrity.
Mediocrity is underrated.
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.
The bar is so low in rap – mediocrity is king!
There’s a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I try to keep an open mind but I’m so tired of the mediocrity.
I just cannot take mediocrity. I just cannot take it on any level.
Perseverance – a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
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