Mediocre Quotes - Page 15

• Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

  G. Willow Wilson

  Meaningful, People, Communicate

  G. Willow Wilson (2010). “The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam”, p.261, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, "Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome."

  Adam Carolla

  Daughter, Mother, Fire

  "The man’s man". Interview with Larry Getlen, nypost.com. June 17, 2012.

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• If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

  Moby

  Self, People, Musician

  Interview with Neil Strauss, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2009.

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• I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.

  Moby

  Records, Made, Hated

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• Mediocre products with great sales teams always beat great products with mediocre sales teams.

  Donal Daly

  Team, Great Sales, Beats

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• Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer.

  Peter Drucker

  Successful, Opportunity, Careers

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.16, Harvard Business Review Press

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• It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

  Page Smith

  Teaching, Trying, Research

  Page Smith (1990). “Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in America”, Viking Adult

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• Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a lot of different things that I liked, when I liked. Consequently, I'm mediocre at all of the above, but still stoked on being a lifetime student of music, skating, painting, writing, etc.

  Jeff Ament

  Writing, School, Rocks

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• Most people who are deemed 'mean' are usually perfectionist who make mediocre people unhappy, cause they put more pressure on them then they can handle.

  Lee Clow

  Mean, People, Unhappy

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• If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!

  Duke Ellington

  Band, Drummer, Ifs

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• I think being mediocre and in the middle would be the worst. It's more interesting to get strong reactions, and to have the mixture of people who get it and the people who don't get it. And to invite a dialogue.

  Sofia Coppola

  Strong, Thinking, People

  Source: www.chud.com

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• The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to the mind. The `polish and pipeclay' school is not yet extinct, and it is easier for the mediocre intelligence to become an authority on buttons, than on tactics.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Eye, School

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• Those who think he had lucky breaks are not only unaware of the real story but also fall prey to that sin of the mediocre: bitchiness about others’ success

  Marlon James

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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• Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in love with.

  Michael Moore

  Men, Odes, Young

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• Making one brilliant decision and a whole bunch of mediocre ones isn't as good as making a whole bunch of generally smart decisions throughout the whole process.

  John Carmack

  Smart, Decision, Brilliant

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• Drop the idea of being Extraordinary!  It's keeping you mediocre. To be Ordinary is the most extraordinary thing in the world. The Ordinary person has light in his eyes; he has become extraordinary but he has no idea of it.

  Rajneesh

  Eye, Light, Ideas

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• In the contest between talent and hard work as to which is the more important element of success, there's no comparison. A mediocre talent with lots of hard work will go further than a stellar talent who coasts.

  David Joyner

  Sports, Hard Work, Important

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• If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward.

  Deborah Solomon

  Thinking, People, Creative

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor.

  Michael Arrington

  Jobs, Real, Black And White

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• Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.

  Stewart Butterfield

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is, Too Short

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• Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

  Salvador Dali

  People, Needs, Littles

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• I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

  Lena Dunham

  Names, Doing Nothing

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• The reality for me is simple. When music is written, it is usually categorized as classical. When it is improvised, it can still be called classical if it is an inspired improvisation. In either category, it is still music, and it can be good or bad or simply mediocre.

  Dave Brubeck

  Simple, Reality, Inspired

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

  Tom Stoppard

  Errors, Black, Comedy

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.180, University of Michigan Press

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• Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.

  Donald Tusk

  Country, Natural, Resources

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