“Niles: Well, as some illustrious person once said, 'Popularity is the hallmark of mediocrity.' Frasier: You just made that up, didn't you? Niles: Yes, but I stand by it.”— Don Siegel, Niles Crane, David Hyde Pierce, imdb.com
“Nations enshrine mediocrity as their modus operandi, and create the fertile ground for the rise of tyrants and other base elements of the society, by silently assenting to the dismantling of systems of excellence because they do not immediately benefit one specific ethnic, racial, political, or spec…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.”— Edmund Hillary, goodreads.com
“I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity. Their lives are a list of shortcomings: the unappreciative boyfriend, the extra ten pounds, the dismissive boss, the conniving sister, the straying husband.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“Think you are weak, think you lack what it takes, think you will lose, think you are second class - think this way and you are doomed to mediocrity.”— David J. Schwartz, amazon.com