Mediocre Quotes - Page 19

• I would not encourage you to go through the sweat, blood, and tears of the recovery process only to reach some kind of mediocre state where you were just 'managing' the illness. It is possible to live without Ed.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Recovery, Blood, Sweat

  Jenni Schaefer (2009). “Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life”, p.9, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I always resent anybody interfering with anybody else trying to do his job. Everybody has his own job to do. If he's good, he'll do well, but if he's mediocre, he's not going to do as well as he should.

  Jack Kirby

  Jobs, Trying, Should

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If a legislator is safe from competition, or if he represents groups with the same economic and political beliefs, he does not have to change his ideas or respond to the needs of the broader population. He can rest content with a mediocre, absentee performance knowing he will be returned to office. And as he is returned year after year the seniority system gives him immense control over people from other parts of the country whose views he need not heed at all.

  Edward Kennedy

  Country, Views, Years

  Edward Moore Kennedy (1968). “Decisions for a Decade: Policies and Programs for the 1970s”, New American Library of Canada

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• Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who seemed to think I could write something worth publishing was my loyal husband. But I always remembered the professor from graduate school who urged me to write and who recommended me for that first writing assignment in 1964. When I protested to Sara Little that I didn't want to add another mediocre writer to the world, she gently reminded me that if I didn't dare mediocrity, I would never write anything at all.

  Katherine Paterson

  Husband, Writing, School

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Mediocre people are the most dangerous people in the world.

  Bill Cosby

  People, World, Dangerous

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• The mediocre golfer generally is one who is too lazy to play better.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Play, Lazy, Golfers

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1948). “Championship golf”

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• There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Role Models, Roles, Glory

  Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 14, 2012.

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• A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Thinking, People

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• Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know.

  Thomas Jane

  Directors, Want, Matter

  Source: collider.com

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• Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.

  Abbi Jacobson

  Men, Stuff, Feels

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

  Madeleine Albright

  Men, World, Rooms

  Interview with Maeve Allsup, www.amwordmag.com. October 20, 2015.

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• I have so many girlfriends in their twenties who live in a white box apartment, having mediocre meals with mediocre friends, waiting for the life they want to hit them in their forties or fifties. They are settling in the now - what's the point?

  Daphne Oz

  Girlfriend, White, Waiting

  Interview with Rachel Goldstien, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Many people functionally share this belief that work has no greater meaning than the paycheck it provides. A natural consequence of this faith commitment is the belief it's okay to do mediocre work so that in your free time you can enjoy your true passions.

  David Kim

  Passion, Commitment, People

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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