Mediocre Quotes - Page 14

• Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.

  Tom Peters

  Rewards, Excellent

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.8, Vintage

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• I've become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little, if anything, to do with what they know or how smart they are; it has everything to do with how healthy they are.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Smart, Successful, Differences

  "The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business". Book by Patrick Lencioni, 2012.

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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

  Opportunity, Ideas, Guy

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• Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are recognized; they are marked by ideas which light up phenomena hitherto obscure and carry science forward.

  Claude Bernard

  Knowledge, Science, Men

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?

  Philip Berrigan

  Lying, Tyrants, People

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• Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

  Ezra Pound

  Psychics, Empowerment

  Ezra Pound (1992). “A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound Among the Troubadours”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Genre

  Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. October 17, 2011.

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• Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now?

  Janis Joplin

  Years, Twenties, Sound

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• Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

  Anita Roddick

  Special

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• I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Travel, Dirty, Naughty

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• To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

  Edith Piaf

  Impossible, Ifs

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• Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

  Jeff Bezos

  People, Understanding, Progress

  "Brought to book" by Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2001.

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• I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

  Andy Richter

  Watches, Four Seasons, Three

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, tv.avclub.com. March 23, 2009.

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• Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Real, Moving, Leader

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• I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.

  Mircea Eliade

  Soul, Body, Want

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• You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

  Seth Godin

  Unhappy, Enough Time, Tribes

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.101, Penguin

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• To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Greatness, Men, Compensation

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• As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Mediocrity, Individual

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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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

  Fall, Men, Age

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• Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.

  Peter Lynch

  Thinking, Two, People

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• To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Silent, Public Good, Speakers

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Arthur Goldhammer (2004). “Democracy in America”, p.576, Library of America

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• Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre

  Leo Tolstoy

  Useless, Knows

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

  Joe Klein

  Cynical, Journalism, Cynicism

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• Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the academic black sheep. I performed adequately at high school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

  Steven Chu

  Brother, School, Sheep

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• Preserve your energy - do not waste it on mediocre activity.

  Stuart Wilde

  Energy, Waste, Activity

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