Quotes About Mediocre

#1. I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Madeleine Albright

#2. When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own.

Henry Rollins

#3. While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

Robert Teeter

#4. This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well.

Sean William Scott

#5. Who, despite the pretensions of this society,
can sleep in it in peace when they know that it derives its mediocre pleasures from the work of millions of
dead souls?

Albert Camus

#6. It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.

Rudolf Bing

#7. Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

Frank Zappa

#8. The most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

Georges Bernanos

#9. If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a brilliant team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something better.

Ed Catmull

#10. I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

Donna Tartt

#11. Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent noise or signal.

Nate Silver

#12. She wiped the mirror so she could look at herself. Mediocre and grim, she thought. Not mediocre, her face, with wide gray eyes, fine nose and smile, but it was grim. A good body, but so long disregarded it seemed grim too.

Lucia Berlin

#13. One colleague who's been in the industry longer than I had been gave me a valuable piece of advice. "Stay close to the facts and observe things fully and report. Then you can be a mediocre journalist." I held onto his words when I worked and I've been following that advice for 16 years.

Hark-Joon Lee

#14. I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can write okay.

Scott Adams

#15. With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Simone Weil

#16. A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.

Jon Evans

#17. Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

Horace

#18. Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

W. Somerset Maugham

#19. I read as if time were running out, because technically it is. As I grow older I find I'm increasingly impatient with mediocre entertainments; I want books that will take my breath away and realign my vision - Barbara Kingsolver

Pat Williams

#20. Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

Martin Firrell

#21. I think I should be allowed to be only fair, or even mediocre, for a while.

Jim Bouton

#22. Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

Pope Francis

#23. I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

Patrice O'Neal

#24. Those who are excellent at their work have learned to comfortably coexist with failure. The excellent fail more often than the mediocre. They begin more. They attempt more. They attack more. Mastery lives quietly atop a mountain of mistakes.

Eric Greitens

#25. Nobody ever starts out to make a mediocre, commercial film. You always think it's going to be something. And then, once you're done with your shooting, you have no control. You're just done, as an actor.

Janeane Garofalo

#26. But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.

Soren Kierkegaard

#27. I find my chances for success improve when I associate with a few talented people as opposed to a plethora of mediocre ones.

Jeffrey Fry

#28. People can generally be classified into two groups: the mediocre realists and the mediocre dreamers. You clearly belong to the latter. Your fate is and will always be the fate of a dreamer.

Haruki Murakami

#29. Be careful not to give your child the impression that you love her perfect, performing parts more than you do her mediocre, stumbling parts.

Henry Cloud

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

Scott Caan

#31. I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.

James D. Sass

#32. If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

Duke Ellington

#33. Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.

Pope Francis

#34. In the world of pop stardom, what is mistaken for rebellion? A mediocre artist who spouts political beliefs that most freshmen in high school could have come up with after huffing Glade.

Greg Gutfeld

#35. Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.

Warren Buffett

#36. The excellent fail more often than the mediocre.

Eric Greitens

#37. Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Chet Atkins

#38. I don't think there is any such thing as a song that is completely great or good. A lot of songs becomes massive hits that are just mediocre, and other times there are incredible songs that never get anywhere and you always wonder why.

Darren Fletcher

#39. When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies.

Ben Horowitz

#40. I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

Kirsten Dunst

#41. The sun rises not to be mediocre, but to shine; so should you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#42. Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.

Woody Hayes

#43. Eventually, the time of action must come. When this happens, be a winner! Don't settle for mediocre results. Don't try to stay even. Go for it all!

Ming-Dao Deng

#44. Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

G. Willow Wilson

#45. Drop the idea of being Extraordinary! It's keeping you mediocre. To be Ordinary is the most extraordinary thing in the world. The Ordinary person has light in his eyes; he has become extraordinary but he has no idea of it.

Rajneesh

#46. It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

Guy Kawasaki

#47. It's a big world. A lot of people are worth loving. Why love someone mediocre?

Akhil Sharma

#48. Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.

Vir Das

#49. I see many founders waste too much time trying to work their networks and/or ultimately settle for mediocre but available candidates. You will definitely have to interview hard for cultural fit, but the best talent isn't cheap.

Scott Weiss

#50. There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.

Joel Achenbach

#51. I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.

Mircea Eliade

#52. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Joseph Heller

#53. Apple CEO Steve Jobs used to talk about a phenomenon called a "bozo explosion," by which a company's mediocre early hires rise up through the ranks and end up running departments. The bozos now must hire other people, and of course they prefer to hire bozos.

Dan Lyons

#54. Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work ... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

Claude Monet

#55. Mediocre people find their way into positions of authority ... because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.

Malcolm Gladwell

#56. Life's too short to fight the forces of change. Life's too short to hate what you do all day. Life's way too short to make mediocre stuff.

Seth Godin

#57. A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

John Edensor Littlewood

#58. The Grand Old Party's abiding affection for a 'bigger and better' presidency isn't entirely logical. After all, the Obama presidency commenced with an effort to reenact the Hundred Days. Yet President Obama's first-term economic performance itself was not 'big' but mediocre - tiny, even.

Amity Shlaes

#59. Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

Paul Theroux

#60. Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.

Michael Schumacher

#61. There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose ... There has been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God.

Theodore Hesburgh

#62. 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

#63. The mediocre golfer generally is one who is too lazy to play better.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#64. A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.

Sam Altman

#65. In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#66. Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

Michael Moore

#67. My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.

Nate Berkus

#68. Albert Einstein once reported, "Great spirits have always encountered voilent opposition from mediocre minds." If you want to achieve your own greatness, to climb your own mountains, you'll have to use yourself as your first and last consultant.

Wayne Dyer

#69. The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.

Seth Godin

#70. If we do something we hate, dislike, or simply feel apathetic about, all five days of our week will be stressful, unhappy or, in the best case, mediocre. Is

Zoe McKey

#71. God, do I hate my little fat tits. You ever pinch your little meat tits and wish you were dead? You ever just stand naked in the mirror. "You little fat-titted mediocre failure!" You ever do that for 3 hours on New Year's Eve.

Jim Norton

#72. Why?" I say, so quietly that it comes out sounding like a tiny, tired sigh.
"Nobody wants to be mediocre." Her shadow on the ceiling is monstrous, a witch in profile.

Brenna Yovanoff

#73. Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

Nick Saban

#74. Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!

Pope Francis

#75. There is a difference between obsessive perfectionism and taking time to create something that is the best you can offer. Knowing what needs to be better and stretching to improve yourself is what separates the mediocre from the marvelous.

Suzanna Reeves

#76. I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

Edmund Hillary

#77. When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.

Terry Pratchett

#78. Why don't you want a boyfriend?"
"I don't know. Maybe I do. I'd just have to meet the right guy. Someone who isn't ordinary. Someone who get someone I fit perfectly with. I want heat, chemistry, an undeniable connection. You know what I mean? I want it all. I'm done with ordinary and mediocre.

Jessica Park

#79. Only mediocre ideas can be tested.

George Lois

#80. The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#81. For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

M. Night Shyamalan

#82. Mediocre work stutters, good work whispers, great work speaks, but extraordinary work shouts.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#83. Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

Sam Altman

#84. The movie creaked along, obvious and mediocre plot. Mediocre script, mediocre music. They ought to have sealed the thing in a time capsule and marked "Late 20th Century Mediocrity" and buried it somewhere.

Haruki Murakami

#85. Grass [marijuana] probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

George Carlin

#86. We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who rule are mediocre at best and usually venal. The question is how do we make those in power frightened of us and not be seduced by formal political processes.

Chris Hedges

#87. Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something ... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

Salvador Dali

#88. It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#89. The mediocre spouse tells. The good spouse explains. The superior spouse demonstrates. The great spouse encourages.

GE Paulus

#90. I don't believe in doing everything and being mediocre at all of them. I believe in being good at one thing.

Sofia Boutella

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

Ira Glass

#92. I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.

Leon Battista Alberti

#93. Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#94. Don't let a mediocre person tell you what you are capable of or how your future is going to be.

Maddy Malhotra

#95. We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

Seth Godin

#96. Here is the reality-as I've been saying for longer than I can remember, Scott Walker is a mediocre county executive who has risen far beyond his talents.

Rick Ungar

#97. He was a mediocre man. He had led a mediocre life exceptional only in the magnitude of its unexceptionality. Now the world was mediocre, rendering him perfect. He asked himself: How can I die? I was always like this. Now I am more me. He had the ammo. He took them all down.

Colson Whitehead

#98. Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Jeff Bezos

#99. As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.

P. Sathasivam

#100. Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in despair or with joy, sing about death or love, for nothing will endure! Morality can only make life a long series of missed opportunities.

Emil Cioran