Best 121 quotes in «mediocre quotes» category

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.

A high church for the true mediocre.

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

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

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

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

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

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

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

Great spirits often meet violent oppisition with mediocre minds.

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

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.

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

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

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

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

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

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

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

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

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

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.

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

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

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

I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

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

I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

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

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

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

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

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

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

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

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

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

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

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

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

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

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

Only mediocre ideas can be tested.