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The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

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.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

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.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.