Mediocre famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.
-- Alfred Jarry -
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre...
-- Billy Wilder -
I've accepted the fact that because I'm human, I'm terrific in one thing, good at some, mediocre at a bit more, and terrible at others. And if you're human, you are too. You'll have to discover the one thing that you are good at and major in it.
-- Bo Sanchez -
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge
-- Claude Bernard -
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.
-- David Deida -
Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.
-- Dorothy Day -
I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.
-- Doug Stanhope -
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
-- Douglass North -
To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
-- Edith Piaf -
Television is such a mediocre medium.
-- Elizabeth Montgomery -
Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.
-- Francoise Giroud -
Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.
-- G. Willow Wilson -
[A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.
-- Georges Bernanos -
When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.
-- Helene Hanff -
If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.
-- Hugh B. Brown -
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
-- Ivan Turgenev -
I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.
-- James Vincent McMorrow -
Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
-- Joe Klein -
My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.
-- Jonathan Brandis -
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
-- Joseph Joubert -
I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man
-- Juanita M. Kreps -
I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.
-- Kevin Kline -
I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.
-- Kirsten Dunst -
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
-- M. Night Shyamalan -
Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!
-- Martin Firrell -
My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.
-- Michael Arndt -
A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.
-- Murray Walker -
I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.
-- Nick Saban -
High achievers don't like mediocre people, mediocre people don't like high achievers.
-- Nick Saban -
One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.
-- Patrice Motsepe -
Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.
-- Randy Pausch -
Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre
-- Robert Hughes -
Preserve your energy - do not waste it on mediocre activity.
-- Stuart Wilde -
Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.
-- T. S. Eliot -
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
-- Thomas Mann -
Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.
-- Tom Peters -
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
-- Tony Judt -
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
-- Walter Mosley -
The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre.
-- Christopher Caldwell -
I think there are times when you're jamming with the universe, and other times when it feels like no matter how hard I work, no matter how good a person I am, I will always be punished for being mediocre.
-- Mackenzie Davis -
You can't be the head, if you are a mediocre.
-- Matthew Ashimolowo -
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.
-- Patrice O'Neal -
If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre.
-- Rafael Cruz -
You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.
-- Wilbert Rideau -
Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.
-- Abbi Jacobson -
I do know that the best way to make a mediocre movie is to just transcribe the book.
-- Andy Weir
