Mediocre Quotes - Page 20

• One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

  Patrice Motsepe

  Happiness, Perfection, High Standards

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• The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results.

  Charlie Munger

  Ideas, Ordinary, Guarantees

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• It is our argument that a sufficiently low price can turn a security of mediocre quality into a sound investment opportunity - provided that the buyer is informed and experienced and he practices adequate diversification. For, if the price is low enough to create a substantial margin of safety, the security thereby meets our criterion of investment.

  Benjamin Graham

  Opportunity, Practice, Safety

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• Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

  Agnes Repplier

  Names, Giving, Mediocrity

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

  Rumi

  Struggle, Reading, Learning

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.

  Seth Godin

  Desire, Mediocrity, Invisible

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• If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre, and unhealthy.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Decision, Healthy, Rich

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• I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Ambitious, Want, Great Things

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• A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Teacher, Inspire, Great Music

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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

  Fall, Loss, Winning

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• I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

  John Boyne

  Memories, Book, Passion

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• Each time a mediocre singer performs, he is saying, in effect, "This is good enough for you." The audience, thrust into that familiar American mood of knowing something is wrong but not knowing what it is, unconsciously absorbs the insult and projects it back onto the mediocre performer in the form of inattention, rudeness and noise.

  Florence King

  Knowing, Mediocrity, Singers

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.58, Macmillan

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• But nothing is better than a truth which appears not to have the semblance of truth. There is always something incomprehensible about the great heroic deeds performed by humanity because they rise so far beyond the mediocre measure of mere mortals; but it is always only because of the incredible feats that human beings have accomplished that humanity recovers its faith in itself.

  Stefan Zweig

  Truth, Heroic Deeds, Humanity

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• It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

  Charlie Munger

  Character, Opportunity, Investing

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• Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Beautiful, Understanding, Ugly

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• The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Ignorance, Thinking, Average

  Karl A. Menninger (1953). “the Human Mind”

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• Albert Einstein once reported, "Great spirits have always encountered voilent opposition from mediocre minds." If you want to achieve your own greatness, to climb your own mountains, you'll have to use yourself as your first and last consultant.

  Wayne Dyer

  Greatness, Mind, Mountain

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• I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

  Uta Hagen

  Thinking, Acting, Theatre

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• Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

  Stephen Collins

  Tv Shows, Acting, Tvs

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• Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

  Harland Miller

  Marriage, Successful, Differences

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• A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

  Quintilian

  Training, Speech, Impressive

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.572, Delphi Classics

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• The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre.

  Christopher Caldwell

  Problem, Managers

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