Mediocre Quotes
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Mediocre goals create mediocre feelings about who we are.
Caroline Adams Miller
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Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.
Jules Romains
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Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
Claude Monet
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The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
Seth Godin
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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.
Mike Krzyzewski
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You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.
Ray Bradbury
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Unfortunately, because of the breadth of what Yahoo does, they sort of became mediocre in so many properties.
Susan Decker
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In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.
Seth Godin
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Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.
Michael Schumacher
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Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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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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Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Heller
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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.
Michael Caine
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Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average.
Alonzo King
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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.
Deborah Solomon
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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.
Erica Jong
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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.
Tim Ferriss
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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.
Sean William Scott
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I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.
Renee Vivien
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Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.
Nick Saban
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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.
Milton Glaser
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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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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.
Sofia Coppola
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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
Ray Bradbury