I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.
I want to add something worthwhile rather than just chucking loads of stuff into the world. I don't want to feel responsible for adding to the soup of mediocrity.
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in 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.
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.