Mediocre Quotes
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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.
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The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
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I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.
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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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Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.
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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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Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.
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We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.
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Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.
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Mediocre goals create mediocre feelings about who we are.
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Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.
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Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average.
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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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The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until you find yourself concerned for the fates of characters who aren’t even fully convincing.
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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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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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I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.
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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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Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.
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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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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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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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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.
