354 Quotes About Mediocrity

Know that by being too good in what you do, you're also doing a great job at making others look bad. And most people will hate you for it. This is the biggest downside of trying to be outstanding; of excelling. Can you blame why most of us want to remain mediocre?

Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.

To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life squandered, which in the end is the greatest cost of all.

To dress up today in the threadbare garments of yesterday is to create an impoverished tomorrow.

We think that boxes take everything that’s bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.

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

The vast majority of people are each the greatest only at being them.

Everyone loves a prodigy [...]. Prodigies get us off the hook for living ordinary lives. We can tell ourselves we're not special because we weren't born with it, which is a great excuse.

Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to diminish the majorities mediocrity.