Mediocre Quotes - Page 19

• A man of but mediocre talent who is furiously driven by deep desire will get somewhere. He who doesn't desire deeply isn't hurt much by failure.

  Harvey Dunn

  Hurt, Men, Desire

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• I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Light, Hands, Sculpture

  1436 On Painting (translated by Cecil Grayson).

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• La mort n'est que pour les me  diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

  Alfred Jarry

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• When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sublime, Should, Sonnet

  Giacomo Casanova (1997). “History of My Life”, p.143, JHU Press

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• A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

  Orrin Woodward

  Excellence, Mindset, Results

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• For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Attention, Reviews, Sixth Sense

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• I'm trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn't interest me. It's not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I'm going to be mediocre.

  Neil Diamond

  Play, Focus, Trying

  "Neil Diamond Cuts Up". Interview with Richard Natale, articles.latimes.com. February 10, 2001.

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• Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

  Don Paterson

  Art, Doe, Waste

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• I've accepted the fact that because I'm human, I'm terrific in one thing, good at some, mediocre at a bit more, and terrible at others. And if you're human, you are too. You'll have to discover the one thing that you are good at and major in it.

  Bo Sanchez

  Facts, Accepted, Terrible

  Bo Sanchez “You Have The Power To Create Love”, Shepherds Voice Publications, Inc.

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• Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

  Joe Klein

  Cynicism, Insight

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• Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Love, Dream, Things In Life

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• I always resent anybody interfering with anybody else trying to do his job. Everybody has his own job to do. If he's good, he'll do well, but if he's mediocre, he's not going to do as well as he should.

  Jack Kirby

  Jobs, Trying, Should

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

  Randy Pausch

  Failing

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• I would not encourage you to go through the sweat, blood, and tears of the recovery process only to reach some kind of mediocre state where you were just 'managing' the illness. It is possible to live without Ed.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Recovery, Blood, Sweat

  Jenni Schaefer (2009). “Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life”, p.9, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Accomplishment, Luck, Tag

  Robert A. Heinlein (2009). “The Puppet Masters”, p.264, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• A high church for the true mediocre.

  Norman Mailer

  Church, Syndicate

  1963 Of the FBI. The Presidential Papers,'Sixth Presidential Paper'.

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• The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and emotions have ideas and emotions more profound than the rest of us. It isn't so. The ability to express is a special gift with a special craft to support it and is spread fairly equally among the profound, the shallow, and the mediocre.

  Janet Burroway

  Writing, Ideas, People

  Janet Burroway (1982). “Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft”, Little Brown and Company

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• Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

  Lee Iacocca

  Organization, Differences, Listening

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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

  Jobs, Cutting, Color

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• No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

  Alan Turing

  Powerful, Brain, President

  Quoted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence (1983)

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• It's ironic that retailers and restaurants live or die on customer service, yet their employees have some of the lowest pay and worst benefits of any industry. That's one reason so many retail experiences are mediocre for the public.

  Howard Schultz

  Ironic, Retail, Benefits

  "Grounds For Success". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. May 1, 1998.

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• Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

  Warren Buffett

  Giving, Investing, Buffets

  "Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist". Book by Roger Lowenstein, 1995.

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• What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Nations, Stature

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• Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.

  Michael Schumacher

  Ambition, Style, Just Being

  "No Pressure to Quit Insists Schumacher". www.dailymail.co.uk. September 13, 2006.

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• We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

  Billy Wilder

  Track

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