Second Rate Quotes

Second Rate Quote of the day

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.

Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.

A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse.

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science-it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong.

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, "I'm in the very front row of the second rate." I'm sort of haunted by that.

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they've transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?

Jesus Christ was the biggest blight on the human race, he was. And all them socialists and communists - second rate Christianity.

Creativity means bringing simplicity to the existing.

Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.