Mediocre Quotes
We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.
If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.
Moderation assures mediocrity -- nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre -- simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow.
It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.
Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.
Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?
We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire, and so we live a mediocre life, never bringing to consummation the primary impulse of our heart.
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.
How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?
A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.
Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.
For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.
Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.
For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.
Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.
High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.
He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.
All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.
The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.
The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.
Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.
