Quotes of: Mediocre Keyword

In December 1989, my mother died very suddenly, and that sparked a re-evaluation of what I was doing, and I realized I was mediocre at everything. I was a mediocre IBM employee, I was a mediocre entrepreneur, I was a mediocre artist. I decided that, ...

Jim McKelvey

There exist words of mediocrity, songs of mediocrity, and life lessons of mediocrity. Advice of mediocrity, books of mediocrity and companions of mediocrity also are available. One may also meet songs of purpose that make us ponder to wonder, advice ...

The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone

There exist words of mediocrity, songs of mediocrity, and life lessons of mediocrity. Advice of mediocrity, books of mediocrity and companions of mediocrity are also available. One may also meet songs of purpose that can make us ponder to wonder and ...

The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

Margaret Mead

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Joseph Heller

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Joseph Heller

Mediocrity comforts the masses. Mediocrity is a likeable attribute.

Shobhaa Dé

Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating.

Icelandic

In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage...

Benjamin N. Cardozo

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

Jonathan Brandis

I do write about men now and then, but I mostly write about women because that's the work I like best. When I became a feminist, I realized that somebody had to write all about this women's art that was out there ignored, and it was going to be me. A...

Lucy R. Lippard

Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

Nick Saban

Entrepreneur, if your distinction isn't angering the mediocre, it's actually mediocre.

Onyi Anyado

If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or she does and therefore all comparisons are incoherent. Only the mediocre, pushing forward a commonplace view of life in a commonplace language, can really be compared, but my wife thinks that "least...

Edward St. Aubyn

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Edwin Louis Cole

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

Kirsten Dunst

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

Claude Bernard

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.

Ellen Glasgow

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

The Mind-Body Problem

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Madeleine Albright

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Robert Louis Stevenson