Mediocre Quotes - Page 6

• Whether you look at these recent PISA results, which we are mediocre at best, whether you look at a 25 percent dropout rate in this country, whether you look at, in one generation, we're not doing what we need to be doing to keep America great.

  Arne Duncan

  Country, Rate

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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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• This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, People, Stupidity

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• I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

  Kevin Kline

  Piano, Students, I Realized

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• Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

  Scott Caan

  Directors, Want, Compliment

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

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• Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Communication, Views, Achievement

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Mistake, Failure

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• Since the purpose of reading, of education, is to become good, our most important task is to choose the right books. Our personal set of stories, our canon, shapes our lives. I believe it is a law of the universe that we will not rise above our canon. Our canon is part of us, deeply, subconsciously. And the characters and teachings in our canon shape our characters--good, evil, mediocre, or great.

  Oliver DeMille

  Believe, Book, Teaching

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• You can't be the head, if you are a mediocre.

  Matthew Ashimolowo

  Ifs

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• Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspond to some need and satisfy some deep desire in mankind; still, for the Inquirers, it is impossible not to conclude that this mystical concept has been harnessed rudely to machinery of the most mundane sort, and has been made to serve the ends of an organization which, ruling under divine guidance, has ruled very little better, and in some respects, worse, than certain rather mediocre but frankly manmade systems of government.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Divine Guidance, Government, Organization

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.719, Library of America

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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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• 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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• 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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• To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.

  Len Smith

  Running, Race, Majority

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• Naked and pure is the spirit that transcends the existence mediocre.

  John Wilbanks

  Naked, Spirit, Existence

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• I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into midstream... I was a failure-mediocre at advertising work and unable to get started as a writer. Hating the city, I got roaring, weeping drunk on my last penny and went home.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Hate, Home, Cities

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.108, Cambridge University Press

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• I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.

  Kent Beck

  People, Tools, Masters

  Twitter post from Nov 08, 2013

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