Susan Decker (Susan Lynne Decker) Quotes

Unfortunately, because of the breadth of what Yahoo does, they sort of became mediocre in so many properties.

Susan Decker

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• It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • More
  • Mediocre
  • Magnificent

• I'm trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn't interest me. It's not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I'm going to be mediocre.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Truth

• Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Approach

• He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Jealousy
  • Mediocre

• Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Great
  • Listening
  • Organization

• Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Good
  • Focus

• I think there are times when you're jamming with the universe, and other times when it feels like no matter how hard I work, no matter how good a person I am, I will always be punished for being mediocre.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Good
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Naked and pure is the spirit that transcends the existence mediocre.

  

  John Wilbanks
  • Spirit
  • Existence
  • Naked

• Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

  

  George Clooney
  • Film
  • Audience
  • Mediocre

• Humanity is mediocre. The majority of women are neither superior nor inferior to the majority of men. They are all equal. They all merit the same scorn.

  

  Valentine de Saint-Point
  • Men
  • Humanity
  • Mediocre

• Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Content
  • Mediocre
  • Dreamers

• A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Question
  • Administration
  • Mediocre

• Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Men
  • Mediocre
  • Old Age

• It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Energy
  • Goals
  • Convinced

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • Purpose
  • Mediocre

• It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Bad
  • Mediocre
  • Goog stuff

• Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

  

  Raymond Queneau
  • Important
  • Character
  • Sometimes

• All the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Breadth

• UFC is a moneymaking machine. The most important thing for this organization is a brand and its marketing. They have a couple of good fighters, and there are also some very good champions, but they are trying to keep everyone at the same level. The most important thing for them is the promotion, not the fighters.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Good
  • Important
  • Trying

• The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Times
  • Sages
  • Baffled

• I think there are a lot of things that are different and there are a lot of things that are the same.

  

  Klayton Albert Celldwelle
  • Different
  • Things
  • Same

• He's a guy that didn't hesitate at all, just jumped right into the challenge and looked forward to the opportunity. He's definitely a big guy that can move around and do good things.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge
  • Move

• If you wish to begin life at forty, you must settle two large personal questions first of all. You must find work and play that call for no more energy than you can afford to spend on them. Then you must train your mind, eye and hand to the point of working and playing with ease, grace and precision.

  

  Walter B. Pitkin
  • Energy
  • Question
  • Grace

• Unfortunately, because of the breadth of what Yahoo does, they sort of became mediocre in so many properties.

  

  Susan Decker
  • Mediocre
  • Breadth
  • Yahoo