Mediocre Quotes

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

I do know that the best way to make a mediocre movie is to just transcribe the book.

The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a tiny difference because the top performers do things just a tiny bit.

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats.

I didn't want to play a mediocre villain. I wanted to go full-on.

Hero­ism breaks its heart, and ide­al­ism its back, on the intran­si­gence of the cred­u­lous and the mediocre, manip­u­lated by the cyn­i­cal and the corrupt.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

Mediocre products with great sales teams always beat great products with mediocre sales teams.

You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.

I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one.

When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are.

All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

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.

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

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.

To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me.

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

I actually live a very mediocre lifestyle. So I decided to step back and do things not just for the sake of doing them, but because I believe in them and I want to do them.

Eventually, the time of action must come. When this happens, be a winner! Don't settle for mediocre results. Don't try to stay even. Go for it all!

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.

John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.