Quotes of: Mediocre-men Keyword

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

Anne Rice

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

Moby

All Religions have this in common, that they are an outrage to common sense for they are pieced together out of a variety of elements, some of which seem so unworthy, sordid and at odds with man’s reason, that any strong and vigorous intelligence l...

Of Wisdome

The only thing--I tell you this straight from the heart--that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with those people--and that music does not have a better reputation...For I assure you, without travel, at leas...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

Diane Keaton

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

Nancy Pearcey

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

Renee Vivien

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

Stephen Collins

They did not ask my permission for their mediocrity, why should I ask theirs for excellence?

Murad S. Shah

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.

Nelson Boswell

It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

Steven Van Zandt

A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.

A. R. Rahman

the lack of money is the ruler of purpose where mediocrity is the king of the mind

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

Edmund Hillary

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

Joan Miro

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Margot Fonteyn

We need to get acquainted with mediocrity to notice greatness.

Into Wine: An Invitation to Pleasure

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

Killosophy

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

Herman Melville

One of the surest roads to mediocrity, is to be overly concerned with pleasing others. It is, in the long run, a vain pursuit.

Terry Crouson