Mediocre Quotes - Page 11

• Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Rooms, Produce

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.

  Brian Tracy

  Clever, Average, People

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• I remembered that throughout my growing up and education and pursuing my dreams and desires, going into acting, and, of course, getting through Yale University and on and on and on, that being average, being mediocre was not an option that you should be proud of.

  Angela Bassett

  Dream, Growing Up, Yale

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• Grass [marijuana] probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

  George Carlin

  Hurt, Clever, Kids

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• Moderation assures mediocrity -- nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre -- simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow.

  Dave Draper

  Nice, Simple, Mediocrity

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• High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.

  Guy Kawasaki

  People, Weakness, Achiever

  Guy Kawasaki (2015). “The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything”, p.145, Penguin

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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

  Motivational, Fun, Choices

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• He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In this country we encourage 'creativity' among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow 'too much.' Well, Before the Revolution is too much and that is what is great about it. Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

  Pauline Kael

  Country, Art, Real

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• Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Swimming, People

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• The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.

  Seth Godin

  Winning, Average, Settling

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• I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man

  Juanita M. Kreps

  Men, Achievement, I Can

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• A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

  Murray Walker

  Funny, Racing, Motor

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• Now, today, some children are enrolled in excellent programs. Some children are enrolled in mediocre programs. And some are wasting away their most formative years in bad programs....That's why I'm issuing a challenge to our states: Develop a cutting-edge plan to raise the quality of your early learning programs; show us how you'll work to ensure that children are better prepared for success by the time they enter kindergarten. If you do, we will support you with an Early Learning Challenge Grant that I call on Congress to enact.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Cutting, Years

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• Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

  Seneca the Younger

  Intelligence, Mediocrity, Helping

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• Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance and rhetoric. Not therapeutic understanding.

  James Hillman

  Hands, White, Understanding

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• I don't like being mediocre. I won't be.

  Mike Milbury

  Hockey, Being Me

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• . . . a jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.

  Prince Charles

  Basketball, Team, Frustration

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• A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.

  Jim Lefebvre

  Beautiful, Sports, Baseball

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• If you buy all the stocks selling at or below two times earnings, you will lose money on half of them because instead of making profits they will actually lose money, but you will only lose a dollar or so a share at most. Then others will be mediocre performers. But the remaining big winners will go up and produce fabulous results and also ensure a good overall result.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Two, Dollars

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• At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do with catching criminals, it has nothing to do with the Mafia, the syndicate, it has nothing to do with trust-busting, it has nothing to do with interstate commerce, it has nothing to do with anything but serving as a church for the mediocre. A high church for the true mediocre.

  Norman Mailer

  Mean, Mafia, Church

  "The Presidential Papers (The Sixth Presidential Paper - A Kennedy Miscellany: An Impolite Interview)". Book by Norman Mailer, 1963.

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• Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Mistake, Ikea, People

  "The miracle of Älmhult" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2004.

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• 'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'.

  Rene Saguisag

  Media, Political

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• Nowadays it is the fashion to pretend that no single individual is ever responsible for a successful advertising campaign. This emphasis on "teamwork" is bunkum - a conspiracy of the mediocre majority.

  David Ogilvy

  Teamwork, Fashion, Successful

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• We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire,
  and so we live a mediocre life,
  never bringing to consummation
  the primary impulse of our heart.

  David Deida

  Heart, Desire, Mediocre Life

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• It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Mind, Habit

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