A Quote by Paula Scher

I love that the level of mediocrity rises.

Paula Scher

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Level Love Mediocrity Rises

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Paula Scher
American - Graphic Designer
Born: October 6, 1948

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

Margaret Atwood

Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.

Napoleon Hill

For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.

Anne Lamott

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Brandon Lee

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.

Benjamin Cardozo

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.

John Olver

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

Frank Herbert

Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.

Bruce Barnbaum

Mediocrity was the dominating element of big conglomerates and, in the new digital age, digitalization goes exactly after mediocrity.

Joe Kaeser

If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.