Pastoral Resources

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 tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

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.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

The only sin is mediocrity.

Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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.