Quotes of: Mediocre-men Keyword

death is a joyous journey for the purposeful life and a melancholy for the mediocre life

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

Clea Duvall

What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

Rachel Cusk

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification...

Atlas Shrugged

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

Danny Strong

It is a belief of the mediocre that extreme effort kills.

Life Capsules

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.

Moby

You will never see an eagle of distinction flying low with pigeons of mediocrity.

Onyi Anyado

Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity.

Suzi Quatro

I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.

Lee Siegel

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Allan Sloan

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Cesare Lombroso

I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.

Doug Harvey

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

James Vincent McMorrow

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

George Will

I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

Tahar Rahim

We have these ambitions that are very hard to accomplish because life puts us in our place. We have this battle with mediocrity.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Commitment to excellence is a great habit; unfortunately commitment to mediocrity is also a habit.

Debasish Mridha

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

James Cash Penney

The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

John Stuart Mill

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

Andy Richter