Mediocre Quotes
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Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.
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The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he just works so hard that he achieves beyond what you would think. 'Overachiever' is sort of a - it's sort of an incorrect term. An overachiever is someone that's just willing to pay the price to get so much more out of his performance.
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Unfortunately, because of the breadth of what Yahoo does, they sort of became mediocre in so many properties.
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Only the mediocre are always at their best. If your standards are low, it is easy to meet those standards every single day, every single year. But if your standard is to be the best, there will be days when you fall short of that goal. It is okay to not win every game. The only problem would be if you allow a loss or a failure to change your standards. Keep your standards intact, keep the bar set high, and continue to try your very best every day to meet those standards. If you do that, you can always be proud of the work that you do.
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Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.
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Mediocre goals create mediocre feelings about who we are.
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.
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The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward.
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We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.
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It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.
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Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.
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One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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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.
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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.
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Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.
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Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average.
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Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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The next time you see a 16-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a mediocre idea trying to pass for something else.
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Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.
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I think being mediocre and in the middle would be the worst. It's more interesting to get strong reactions, and to have the mixture of people who get it and the people who don't get it. And to invite a dialogue.
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I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.
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That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor.
