Mediocre Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Mom, Teacher, Needs

  "Condi Rice: 'When A Nation Loses Control Of Its Finances, It Loses Control Of Its Destiny'". www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

  Danny Strong

  Two, Voice, Years

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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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• I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

  Renee Vivien

  Cunning, Bits

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!... A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not - but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes - bad, if he always stays in the same place.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Art, Travel, Men

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• We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

  Bruce Barton

  Failure, Grace, Style

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• Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

  Tom Robbins

  Common Sense, Mind, Mediocrity

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.137, Bantam

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• Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

  Claude Monet

  Mediocrity, Trouble, Enough

  Claude Monet (2005). “Monet”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

  Susan Sontag

  Ambition, Artist, Mediocrity

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• Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.

  Bobby Knight

  Success, Self Esteem, Winning

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• My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

  Douglass North

  California, Records, University

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• He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In this country we encourage 'creativity' among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow 'too much.' Well, Before the Revolution is too much and that is what is great about it. Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

  Pauline Kael

  Country, Art, Real

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• it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.

  Marie Antoinette

  Change, Order, Wish

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• Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.

  Francoise Giroud

  Sex, Rights, Equal

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• If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

  Grace Hartigan

  Fighting, Equality, Men

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• Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

  Martin Firrell

  Defeat, Collapse

  The London Evening Standard, August 09, 2001.

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