Quotes of: Mediocre-men Keyword

One mustn't mistake bling for excellence, just as one mustn't mistake quiet for mediocre.

Kevin McCloud

When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.

Maximillian Degenerez

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

Neil Patrick Harris

When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.

Donald Tusk

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Jeb Bush

Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.

Austin Ligon

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Jean de la Bruyere

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Scott Alexander

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

I'm an intensely competitive guy who is driven by the idea that accepting mediocrity or accepting defeat is not the way you succeed in life.

John W. Thompson

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

Isaac D'Israeli

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

Ira Glass

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

George Lois

In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get.

Bill Bryson

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Warren Bennis

Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out.

Martin Gore

Jack: There is nothing mediocre about Debbie Klein's body.

An American Werewolf in London

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

Brigitte Bardot

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

Life

In the faculty of failure, mediocrity is never an optional course!

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