Mediocrity is a hand-rail.
MontesquieuTag: mediocrity
It is a terrible moment when you realise you’ll never do all the best things this world can offer; that you’ll never have a superlative experience. You’ll go to a Gala Bingo rather than Vegas; get your own office, but not be a CEO; and get a gravestone, but not in Poet’s Corner. You’ll never sleep with the girls on the TV. And all of this mediocrity was made worse by the fact of its inescapable prevalence.
Django WylieTag: humor life life-lessons mediocrity
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
Flannery O'ConnorTag: stories short-stories mediocrity competence
Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness.
Shannon L. AlderTag: manners politeness hypocrisy irony mediocrity fake accepted
We're all teased or pressured into conforming to the all-levelling social norms of mediocrity.
H.M. ForesterTag: conformity mediocrity norms
You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
Guy de MaupassantTag: intelligence democracy elections government fools population mediocrity masses
Could anything possibly be more humorous than believing in the depth or in the depravity of the Parisian character?
StendhalTag: mediocrity 1830
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
Frank HerbertTag: passion caution risk mediocrity
Moderation leads to Mediocrity, Intensity leads to Excellence.
Suleman AbdullahTag: life success lesson excellence mediocrity
What does it mean to be an 'open source' society? What does one mean when one says one has an 'open mind'? Open source means that its a society everybody can work on improving. It has a synergy that allows the best minds to float on top, since there is no entropical hierarchy of mediocrity - once everything stays fluid there is the odd chance for genius elements to actually lead. Such is the case now in Turkey. The protesters are a fluid synergy that have no entropical leadership, and thus the most brilliant PR moves are made by the resistance, who are opposed by the worst sort of mediocrity that is totally at odds with reality. An 'open mind' follows a similar process, but in this case the entropy hides in the hierarchy of ideas that is implanted in the brain: once a person follows mediocre ideas - such as the 'idea' that 'marriage is the meaning of life' or 'having a job is the purpose of existence' etc - then the phenomenon of the 'open mind' becomes already impossible, for there is an internal hierarchy of entropy present that will prevent any sort of original impulse to have the meaning it truly has. Hence, the only way to escape the mediocrity of ones own mind is to allow anything to build and revise it.
Martijn BendersTag: society open-mind mediocrity open-source
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