Quotes About Mediocre

It takes a lot of effort to look this mediocre.

I was a pretty mediocre player.

I've always been a mediocre student, so I never won an award in school. I'm not very athletic, so I've never won a sports award. So, I'm a mediocre person.

I was a mediocre B-average student throughout my school years.

I have made mistakes in my career by associating with films which were mediocre because I needed money at that time.

Television is such a mediocre medium.

When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies.

I'm not particularly gifted; I'm not genetically freakish in any sense; I'm absolutely average.

I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.

As for the reasons behind my retirement, they mostly center around simple fatigue and a fear that if I continue for many more years my work will begin to suffer, or at the very least ease into the graveyard of mediocre cartoons.

The more pores, the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper, the more 'literary' you are. That's my definition anyway. Telling detail. Fresh detail. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her.

Los buenos escultores tocan la vida a menudo. Los mediocres sólo pasan apresuradamente la mano por encima de ella. Los malos violan y la dejan por inútil.

Los buenos escritores tocan a menudo la vida. Los mediocres la rozan rápidamente. Los malos la violan y la abandonan a las moscas.

I felt in my heart that the further one ventures the better one understands how everything in our life is common, short, and empty; that it is in seeking the unknown in our sensations that we discover how mediocre are our attempts and how soon defeated!

Here, what do you know of madness and despair?' 'There are no such things. All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are a force. And force is a crime in the eyes of the fools, the weak and the silly who rule the roost.

There are no such things. All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are a force. And force is a crime in the eyes of the fools, the weak and the silly who rule the roost.

You will carry into eternity the product of your investment in this life. Life is too short and the stakes too high to live mediocre lives.

The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is mediocre rubbish, trash suitable for mass consumption. More and more, bigger and bigger blockbusters of less and less significance. What counts is the paper we sell, not the words that are printed on it.

La mente líquida pone todo el control afuera, se deja llevar por la marejada y, por eso, es mediocre y trivial.

La mente líquida pone todo el control afuera, se deja llevar por la marejada y, por eso, es mediocre y trivial. Es mejor mimetizarse, diluirse en el conjunto indiferenciado de la población, pasar desapercibido y eludir cualquier responsabilidad. La motivación se convierte en algo tan instantáneo y volátil, que la sola idea de profundizar produce molestia, pero no por miedo a que las ideas tambaleen como haría el dogmático, sino por simple y llana pereza.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.