Do you know the hallmark of a second rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The...
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Ayn Rand
We don't want to think about our weaknesses. We don't want to talk about them, and we certainly don't want anyone else to point them out. This is a classic sign of mediocrity, and this mediocrity has a firm grip on the Church and humanity...
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Matthew Kelly
Greatness begins where mediocrity ends.
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Debasish Mridha
Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell--the hell of your own meanness.
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Anonymous
EpitaphDen Tigern ertrann ich Die Wanzen nährte ich Aufgefressen wurde ich Von den Mittelmäßigkeiten.
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Bertolt Brecht
More Quotes By J. K. Simmons
I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
My overall quest is always to do something that's somehow different from whatever it is that I just got done doing. If that can include occasionally playing an older guy who has a romantic side and a romantic relationship, than that's a real treat.
There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart, ' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K. Simmons, who has a romantic relationship with...
