Mediocre Quotes

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

Some people insist that "mediocre" is better than "best." They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

It's more than magnificent; it's mediocre.

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.

Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.

Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.

Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.

Nobody wants to be in a mediocre organization. You don't have the same energy flowing through.

If you don't have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre. Is that how you want to live your life?

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

Only mediocre ideas can be tested.

You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.

Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called reality.

A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

The bottom line: Earth is not mediocre.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others’ success

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

I don't like being mediocre. I won't be.

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre.

'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.

Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.

The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

Most people who are deemed 'mean' are usually perfectionist who make mediocre people unhappy, cause they put more pressure on them then they can handle.

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.