Quotes of: Mediocrity Keyword

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

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

George Allen, Sr.

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!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Orison Swett Marden

The call of distinction cannot be heard by the average, neither can the vision of distinction be seen by the eyes of the mediocre.

Onyi Anyado

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

Orrin Woodward

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

Pope Francis

Life is too short to chase perfection, yet too long to be satisfied with mediocrity.

Russell Eric Dobda

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

Ryan Lilly

Imitating someone is the mediocre way of getting humanity back to what we evolved from.

Shubham Choudhary

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

Mario Batali

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec