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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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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Everything on TV is perfect, and it's so boring.
Jonathan Krisel
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You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.
Whoopi Goldberg
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The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Unfortunately, because of the breadth of what Yahoo does, they sort of became mediocre in so many properties.
Susan Decker
