Mediocre Quotes

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

To be popular I must be mediocre.

I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.

Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.

This isn’t a game. We don’t want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you’ve spent most of your time here being mediocre.

Here is the reality - as I've been saying for longer than I can remember, Scott Walker is a mediocre county executive who has risen far beyond his talents.

If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.

A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.

This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well.

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

Scores only matter if they’re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard... But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.

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.

Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.

I trust that you are aware that today’s success is tomorrow’s mediocrity. This means anything appealing today will be appalling tomorrow.

If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity.

The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened.

Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence.

It was lonely to be so perfect in all respects.

Birds that cannot fly high into the sky rejoice exceedingly and sing sweet melodies when they get to the top of the tallest tree on the highest mountain!

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity anytime anywhere.

As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.

Do not get a job for a living. Rather, get work

If we’re honest, what makes something impossible is not our fear. Rather, it is our indifference.

Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

If truth be told, the easy road is nothing more than an armchair in clever disguise. And if you look around, it seems that there are a whole lot of people in the furniture business.

Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard.

When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.

Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.

Leaders don’t fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn’t their desire to maintain but to improve.

We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.

To become a better you, be diligent and never let the charms of procrastination and excuses seduce you to fall for mediocrity.

Where a mediocre mind finds adversity, a great mind finds great opportunity.

Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.

If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!

Life without madness is mediocrity.

for me, to say I yet to begin gives me reasons not to look back and see what I have done but, to look ahead and see, understand and plan for what I am yet to do