Quotes of: Mediocrity Keyword

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

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