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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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
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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
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We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.
Seth Godin
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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
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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
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All the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.
Beryl Markham
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.
Joseph Heller
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You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.
Edwin Catmull
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Just because a record has a groove don't make it in the groove.
Stevie Wonder
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Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.
William Julius Wilson
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My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.
Jordan Knight
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Unfortunately, because of the breadth of what Yahoo does, they sort of became mediocre in so many properties.
Susan Decker
