Mediocre Quotes
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Mediocre goals create mediocre feelings about who we are.
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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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If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.
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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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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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Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people.
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
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Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average.
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Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.
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I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.
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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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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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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.
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The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.
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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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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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I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.
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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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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.
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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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For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong.
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My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.
