Mediocrity quotes
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Fred_Brooks
Design Is Important
“Mediocre design provably wastes the world’s resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important; teaching design is important.”
- Source: Brooks Jr., F. P. (2010). The Design of Design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley. ISBN: 978-0-201-36298-5. Preface.
Peter_Drucker
Mistakes
“The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make - for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.”
- Source: Peter Drucker, The Practice of Management New York,: Harper, 1st ed. 1954 ; Routledge, 2012, p. 147.
- Keywords: Better_quotes Man_quotes Humanity_quotes Mistake_quotes Make_quotes Try_quotes Promotion_quotes Top_quotes Level_quotes Job_quotes Big_quotes Mediocrity_quotes
Albert_Einstein
Great Spirits
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
- Source: Letter to Morris Raphael Cohen, professor emeritus of philosophy at the College of the City of New York, defending the appointment of Bertrand Russell to a teaching position (19 March 1940)."
- Keywords: Greatness_quotes Mediocrity_quotes Mind_quotes Opposition_quotes Comprehension_quotes Ignorance_quotes Prejudice_quotes Courage_quotes Honesty_quotes Spirit_quotes Incapable_quotes Understand_quotes Refuse_quotes Man_quotes Bow_quotes Blind_quotes Conventional_quotes Choice_quotes Opinion_quotes
Joseph_Heller
Mediocrity
“Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.”
- Source: Heller, Joseph. 'Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition'. Chapter 9 'Major Major Major Major', page 92. Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition.
- Keywords: Major_quotes Mediocrity_quotes Born_quotes Late_quotes Achieve_quotes Thrust_quotes Lack_quotes Distinction_quotes Inevitable_quotes Stand_quotes Man_quotes Impress_quotes
Frederick_Winslow_Taylor
Average versus First Class Productivity
“That there is a difference between the average and the first class man is known to all employers, but that the first class man can do in most cases from two to four times as much is known to few, and is fully realized only by those who have made a thorough and scientific study of the possibilities of men.”
- Source: F.W. Taylor (1903) "Shop management; a paper read before the American society of mechanical engineers, " in: Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 24: 1337-1480. p. 1346.
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