Quotes of: Mediocrity Keyword

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Mary Kay Ash

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

Tom Stoppard

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

Nancy Sinatra

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

Scott Caan

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

William Hurt

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

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

David Bowie

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.

Fred Allen

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

Rachel Cusk

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