Subpar Quotes

#1. Historically, we have always seen reversion to the mean. After stocks have had an unusually great 10 or 20 years, they typically turn in subpar results over the next 10 or 20, and after bad 10- to 20-year stretches, the next 10 to 20 tend to be above average.

James O'Shaughnessy

#2. Short of hiring a new staff, consider giving subpar workers a chance to improve. Tell them why they're not measuring up and give them a set amount of time to make specific improvements.

Danny Meyer

#3. Building a business is like building a home. If the foundation rests on an unstable setting or is constructed with subpar materials, it doesn't matter if the rest of the home is perfect. It will never be a joy to its owner

Thomas J. Stanley

#4. Something else that separates me from society: Super-Positive Perspective! Where normal people would whine about subpar accommodations, I choose to view it as upscale camping.

Tim Dorsey

#5. If your diet is dialed in, you can train in a pretty subpar manner and still get passable results. On the other hand, if your training is fantastic but your diet is crap, you have a harder road ahead of you.

John Romaniello

#6. How has being "realistic" or "responsible" kept you from the life you want? How has doing what you "should" resulted in subpar experiences or regret for not having done something else?

Timothy Ferriss

#7. The constant moving and fighting, the seemingly endless carousel of new people I had to meet, learn to love, and then forget - this, and not my subpar public school, was te real barrior to opportunity.

J.D. Vance

#8. Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you'll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.

Grant Cardone

#9. A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#10. SOLOMON KUGEL
His performance, of late,
had been subpar.
Born, unfortunately. Died eventually.

Shalom Auslander

#11. He looked like a child who had been slightly misdelivered, with some subpar forceps handling by the attending.

Lev Grossman

#12. Where I'm from on the Gold Coast, we say that there are a lot of 'cashed-up Bogans,' you know, people with no class but a lot of money.

Margot Robbie

#13. It's really important to find an hour or two to a day to make sure that you keep healthy, keep fit. It's very easy just to forget that aspect. And if you're feeling really good and fit, I think you can get two or three extra hours a day of hard work in as well.

Richard Branson

#14. Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

Moby

#15. But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

Alexander Pope

#16. I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.

Sir Fulke Greville

#17. Rules?"
He nodded as he peeled the third egg. "There's not that many. No shutting me out. It's just you and me and no one else." He paused, and my
heart was jumping. "And finally, you keep looking damn sexy in my shirts.

J. Lynn

#18. You can see a zoomable sixteen-billion-pixel version on your home computer, an online visualization that its creators, Haltadefinizione, claim to be "the highest definition photograph ever in the world.

Ross King

#19. The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

Ray Davies

#20. Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

Charles Darwin

#21. I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

Pat Benatar

#22. A musician's whole life is to listen.

Wynton Marsalis

#23. Politicians are either there or here or totally at home. Their finitude is more than sufficient unto itself. I don't mean to imply that I'm any better than they which does not mean that they are any better than I. Which doesn't mean anything at all.

Eugene Ionesco

#24. Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.

Thucydides

#25. The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.

J.M. Barrie

#26. I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.

John Malkovich