Mediocre Quotes - Page 8

• He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me.

  LL Cool J

  Song: Jealous

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• I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Fans, Bigs

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• I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

  Patrice O'Neal

  Hate, Crowds, Hate Me

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Successful, Voice, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Writing, Years

  Paul Theroux (2014). “The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas”, p.83, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

  Walter Lippmann

  Intelligent, Soul, Bent

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.137, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Fighting, Excellence, Excellent

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

  Ira Glass

  Different, Needs, Purpose

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

  Susan Sontag

  Jobs, Important, Savages

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• I think the worst reaction that I could get from someone to my photos is some sort of mediocre, middle-range reaction where they really get nothing from it, and they want to move on to the next thing. [I'd rather they be] horrified, pissed off at me, extremely disgusted at how bad of an artist I am.

  Alex Prager

  Moving, Artist, Thinking

  "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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• A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Math, Mediocrity, Paper

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• No extraordinary result ever came from mediocre effort.

  Hal Elrod

  Motivational, Effort, Results

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Nov 12, 2009

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• Establishing and maintaining clarity for yourself and what you want is the starting point for success. Thus, maintaining extraordinary clarity is necessary to achieve extraordinary success. The problem is that most people maintain a mediocre level of clarity, which inevitably leads to a mediocre level of success.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, People, Levels

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• Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

  B. C. Forbes

  Strong, Men, Opportunity

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• What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy and courage we are willing to expend reversing entropy, battling cynicism, suffering and challenging mediocre minds, staring down those who would trample our dreams, taking a stand for magic, and advancing the potential of the human race.

  Dan Pallotta

  Dream, Race, Giving

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• I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

  Renee Vivien

  Cunning, Bits

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• Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

  Diane Keaton

  Stars, Writing, Men

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• We [Desaparecidos] have to make the message and the music and the packaging as appealing as possible - as Taco Bell as possible: mediocre and no one can be offended by it and everyone can sort of enjoy it and we can play it on the radio.

  Conor Oberst

  Play, Taco Bell, Packaging

  Source: www.ew.com

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• Mathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference is something you can't really describe - you can only recognize. You hear somebody playing the violin, and it was Fritz Kreisler or it was somebody else, and you can tell the difference. It is so in almost every art. We just don't understand why it is that there are just a few people who are just completely off the scale and the rest of them are just mediocre. And we don't know why. But I say it's certainly true of mathematics.

  Freeman Dyson

  Art, People, Mathematics

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Ideas, Years, Decision

  Source: www.justjared.com

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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.

  Edwin Catmull

  Ideas, Giving, Groups

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• the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Deterrent

  Elizabeth Hardwick (2011). “Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature”, p.6, New York Review of Books

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• We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Doe, Wells

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The producer beating a new path for himself through the wilderness is going to do the thing 'differently,' of course. But after a while, he looks about him. The territory is unfamiliar, the forest ahead forbidding. Just how 'different' dare he be? He looks at his resources, and then at the established successes of the past. He suddenly realizes he must play safe, be sure. The unknown is a gamble; the known isn't-at least comparatively. The safest plan, obviously, is to follow the trailblazers. So he produces an imitation of one of the current successes. Usually it is a mediocre imitation.

  Irving Thalberg

  Past, Play, Path

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• Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

  Nate Silver

  Keys, Data, Patterns

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