Mediocre Quotes

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Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.

I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unhealthy.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.

I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.

Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

Mediocre people don't like high achievers and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Mediocre people are the most dangerous people in the world.

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.

Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.