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All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity.

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

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.

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.