When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.
Mediocrity is underrated.
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.
The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.
Everything about mediocrity kills me.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.
I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.
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