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• A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

  Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

  Science, Firsts, Scientist

  "And I Quote, Revised Edition: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker". Book by Andrew Frothingham, Ashton Applewhite, and Tripp Evans, p.469, 1992.

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• First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

  Michael Caine

  Funny, Humorous, Theatre

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• Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

  Horace

  Book, Men, Poet

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• We must reject the idea... Well-intentioned, but dead wrong... That the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become "more like a business." Most businesses... Like most of anything else in life... Fall somewhere between mediocre and good.

  James C. Collins

  Business, Fall, Greatness

  "Good to Great and the Social Sectors". Book by James C. Collins, 2005.

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• I made my performance debut in New York City downtown on the Lower East Side in college doing awkward performance art as a go-go dancer at Lady Starlight's Party. And I never thought that my love for mediocre performance art and bad mime would ever come to use in my career as an actor. But my fantasies came true and I got to play Maureen in Rent.

  Annaleigh Ashford

  Art, New York, College

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• Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Dreamer, Being Me

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• Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Titles, Inferiors, Superiors

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Titles"

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• The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible...it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors...to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.

  Ferdinand Magellan

  Exercise, Iron Will, Sea

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• Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount of work. The second is that they never know fatigue. And the third is that their minds grow more brilliant as they grow older, instead of less brilliant. Great men's lives begin at forty, where the mediocre man's life ends. The genius remains an ever-flowing fountain of creative achievement until the very last breath he draws.

  Walter Russell

  Successful, Men, Creative

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• I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method gives only mediocre results; some recent examples demonstrate that. The American authors, who love to do things big, often publish experiments that have been conducted on hundreds and thousands of people; they instinctively obey the prejudice that the persuasiveness of a work is proportional to the number of observations. This is only an illusion.

  Alfred Binet

  Science, Numbers, People

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• So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but isn't that a mediocre service, which after all we could have done without; and, it is not even to be feared that this artificial language be a veil, interposed between reality and the physicist's eye? Far from that, without this language most of the initimate analogies of things would forever have remained unknown to us; and we would never have had knowledge of the internal harmony of the world, which is, as we shall see, the only true objective reality.

  Henri Poincare

  Eye, Science, Reality

  "Statistical Mechanics of Disordered Systems: A Mathematical Perspective". Book by Anton Bovier, p. 3, 2006.

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• There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Inspirational, Want, Bad Times

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• God is the creativity, so if you really want to enter into the world of God you will have to learn the ways of creativity - and that has disappeared. Instead of creativity we value productivity: we talk about how to produce more. Production can give you things but cannot give you values. Production can make you rich outwardly but it will impoverish you inwardly. Production is not creation. Production is very mediocre; any stupid person can do it, one simply needs to learn the knack of it.

  Rajneesh

  Stupid, Creativity, Giving

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• All of us are prone to excuse our own mediocre performance. We blame our misfortunes, our disfigurements, our so-called handicaps. Victims of our own rationalization, we say silently to ourselves, 'I'm just too weak,' or 'I'm not cut out for better things.' Others soar beyond our meager accomplishments. Envy and discouragement take their toll. .

  Thomas S. Monson

  Cutting, Accomplishment, Envy

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• You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.

  Amy Chan

  Greatness, People, Achieve

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• For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.

  John Ortberg

  Faith, Settling, Danger

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.82, Harper Collins

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• Eventually, the time of action must come. When this happens, be a winner! Don't settle for mediocre results. Don't try to stay even. Go for it all!

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Trying, Action, Winner

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• Even a mediocre idea created and presented with passion can change the world.

  Boland T. Jones

  Motivational, Passion, Ideas

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• It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort and it lives on the lips of the child crying for his mother. It is the song of the lover in need of her loved one, the raving of the lunatic supplicant petitioning his God...The love song is the sound of our endeavors to become God-like, to rise up and above the earthbound and the mediocre.

  Nick Cave

  Mother, Song, Children

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• I've done millions of mediocre movies. I've done way more than my fair share. You do what you gotta do. This is not heart surgery. I'm not curing cancer. I'm just trying to put my kids through school.

  Ron Perlman

  Cancer, Heart, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

  Jason Ritter

  Dad, Would Be, Embarrassing

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• Hero­ism breaks its heart, and ide­al­ism its back, on the intran­si­gence of the cred­u­lous and the mediocre, manip­u­lated by the cyn­i­cal and the corrupt.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Hero, Heart, Isms

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• I see a sea of networkers all doing and saying the same things.
  They look alike, act alike and sound alike when speaking to prospects.
  If you want to rise above the average, mediocre networker... then you
  have to think differently.

  Mark Weiser

  Thinking, Average, Sea

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• That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Worry, Becoming, Being Me

  Rebecca Goldstein (1993). “The Mind-Body Problem”, Penguin Group USA

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• I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.

  Amy Winehouse

  Mean, People, Rude

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