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Ayn Rand: “The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.”

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Arthur Conan Doyle: “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”

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Ambrose Bierce: “Perseverance, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.”

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Scott Alexander: “All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.”

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Chet Atkins: “Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.”

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Virginia Woolf: “The middlebrow is the man, or woman, of middlebred intelligence who ambles and saunters now on this side of the hedge, now on that, in pursuit of no single object, neither art itself nor life itself, but both mixed indistinguishably, and rather nastily, with money, fame, power, or prestige.”

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Kathleen Norris: “Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.”

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Sigmund Freud: “Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense.”

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William M. Winans: “Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.”

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Blaise Pascal: “You always admire what you really don't understand.”

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Fulton J. Sheen: “Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson: “Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. ”

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Ayn Rand: “Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.”

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Margaret Mead: “Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.”

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Lily Tomlin: “Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”

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Sophia Loren: “Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”

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William E. Gladstone: “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.”

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

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Albert Einstein: “Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.”

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Max Beerbohm: “Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.”

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Jean de La Bruyere: “There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!”

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Robert G. Ingersoll: “In the republic of mediocrity genius is dangerous. ”

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

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Joseph Heller: “Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”

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