Quotes and Sayings About Mediocre
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La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.
-- Alfred Jarry -
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre...
-- Billy Wilder -
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 -
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge
-- Claude Bernard -
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 -
Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.
-- Dorothy Day -
I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.
-- Doug Stanhope -
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
-- Douglass North -
To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
-- Edith Piaf -
Television is such a mediocre medium.
-- Elizabeth Montgomery -
Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.
-- Francoise Giroud -
Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.
-- G. Willow Wilson -
[A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.
-- Georges Bernanos -
When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.
-- Helene Hanff -
If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.
-- Hugh B. Brown -
It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
-- Ivan Turgenev -
I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.
-- James Vincent McMorrow -
Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
-- Joe Klein -
My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.
-- Jonathan Brandis -
No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
-- Joseph Joubert -
I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man
-- Juanita M. Kreps -
I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.
-- Kevin Kline -
I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.
-- Kirsten Dunst -
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
-- M. Night Shyamalan
