Mediocre Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are.

  George Carlin

  Clever, Kids, Pieces

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

  Edwin Catmull

  Team, Ideas, Giving

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The failure to find the right niche for people - or to let them find their own perfect niches - is a major reason that so many workplaces are mediocre, even toxic, in spite of the presence of talent. Leaders of great groups give them whatever they need and free them from everything else.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Giving, Perfect, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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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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• Nobody wants to be in a mediocre organization. You don't have the same energy flowing through.

  Colin Powell

  Organization, Energy, Want

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

  George Carlin

  Hurt, Clever, Kids

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• I use really crazy subject matter, like all of those pictures of me throwing up and cutting myself, it's to make people think rather than be so mediocre. Instead of just seeing another girl with implants, I want to have meaning to what I do.

  Jeffree Star

  Girl, Crazy, Cutting

  Source: substreammagazine.com

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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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• You don't want to spend your life writing about stuff that doesn't matter. You want to try to pull out of the temporal mediocre and write in a way that is meaningful to everybody. This goes back to this idea of being intimate with your reader. Since we're all down here and we're all dying and aspiring and loving and feeling inadequate, all these things that we all are doing all the time, what a relief it is, when somebody looks at you and says, "Yeah, me too."

  George Saunders

  Meaningful, Writing, Feelings

  "George Saunders: It's All About Suckage-Avoidance". Interview With Doug Polisin, www.audible.com. March 15, 2017.

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• I think there are times when you're jamming with the universe, and other times when it feels like no matter how hard I work, no matter how good a person I am, I will always be punished for being mediocre.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Thinking, Being Me, Universe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes, of course we're going to get a lot of plain, mediocre trash. There are a lot of writers who get huge advances for books that don't go anywhere and they have to burn them somewhere or throw them away. I always think about all the poor trees that have been sacrificed.

  Ana Castillo

  Book, Thinking, Tree

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• I want to be involved in things I can be really proud of. There's a lot of bad films being made and I don't understand how they got the money for it. That said, there's a lot of bad telly, but there's also a lot of very high quality that is something I'd be much more proud of than a mediocre film.

  Aisling Loftus

  Quality, Proud, Film

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Anything would be better in the US than what you have. As a government it's really very low quality, given the fact that this country produces eminent intellectuals, has great universities, and then the people who arrive in government are very mediocre. The Latin American situation has been very different in the first place, because writers have spoken for those who have no voice. The rate of illiteracy, poverty, joblessness in Latin America has been so great throughout our history that if the writers didn't speak out for the people, nobody would.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Country, Latin, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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