Accepting Mediocrity Quotes

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

Jeb Bush

#2. 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

#3. When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

Olivier Theyskens

#4. If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately.

Edward Hallett Carr

#5. Had she been at all used to blushing, she would have blushed, but she wasn't, so she didn't.

Kerry Greenwood

#6. Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort

Manoj Arora

#7. Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest
We want sanitary food, planetary conquest

U-God

#8. If my penis were a writer/director, it would be Woody Allen - small, neurotic, and, frankly, hit or miss.

Matthew Norman

#9. It is a great thing to do what is necessary before it becomes essential and unavoidable.

Flann O'Brien

#10. It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#11. Be hostile unless you must, Moiraine had said, but above all never be overly friendly. Never be eager

Robert Jordan

#12. If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.

Nathaniel Branden

#13. For me, being on set is no different than being at a dinner table or riding the subway next to someone; inevitably their life story is always more compelling than most ads in magazines and most commercials and reality TV and all the stuff we're sold and told is valuable.

Victoria Mahoney

#14. What about the look in your eyes?' 'God knows. I was just trying to make you better.' 'Well, you did that. You've always done that. Now, go to bed. I don't dare help you. It's all I can do right now, just looking at you, falling out of my dressing gown like that.

Beatriz Williams

#15. Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table.
Han (to Leia)

Aaron Allston

#16. People think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

Jodi Picoult