Mediocre Quotes
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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 -
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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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 -
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.
Jules Romains -
Mediocre goals create mediocre feelings about who we are.
Caroline Adams Miller -
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.
Richard Sherman -
Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.
Nick Saban
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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 -
We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.
Seth Godin -
Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.
Michael Schumacher -
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 -
Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.
Boland T. Jones -
Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average.
Alonzo King
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Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Heller -
I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.
Renee Vivien -
Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu -
You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.
Wilbert Rideau -
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
Seth Godin -
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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I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.
Michael Arndt -
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 -
My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.
Michael Arndt -
I actually live a very mediocre lifestyle. So I decided to step back and do things not just for the sake of doing them, but because I believe in them and I want to do them.
Mila Kunis