Quotes About Mediocre

Ironically, this same code had been a plot twist in a mediocre thriller Langdon had read years ago.

nosotros, incluso más que nosotros mis­mos, a utilizarlos correctamente. A veces, sentía una gran melancolía al pensar en el uso tan mediocre que hacemos de nuestras facultades, aun cuando nuestro entendimiento está iluminado por la gran llama de la instrucción

If perceptions wove themselves automatically into ordered thought, if mind were not an active effort hammering out order from chaos, how could the same experience leave one man mediocre, and in a more active and tireless soul be raised to the light of wisdom and the beautiful logic of truth?

The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;

My idea of the show is that it's a war time broadcast. We are at war against stations who applaud timid, unadventurous programming. We are at war against mediocre and uninspired music. Our enemies are many. All the "presenters" on the radio who dial in their shows with not an ounce of Fanatic zeal or love of music and the ever more corporate lean of so many stations are but a few examples.

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.

The usual key to getting films made seems to be a producer's terrier-like determination not to let it go. Unfortunately, such producers often seem prone to sinking their claws into mediocre projects.

So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

There's nothing wrong with it. It's just not particularly fabulous.

Sometimes i worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own.

There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.

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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.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs us of the chance to be extraordinary and leads us to the mediocre.

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

Entrepreneur, if your distinction isn't angering the mediocre, it's actually mediocre.

You are a miserable excuse for a boyfriend! You are, like, the safety school of boyfriends. You are the beige of boyfriends. You are the plain yogurt of boyfriends.

Seeing the pros in person was no more interesting than eating an ice-cold hamburger

The mediocre have no importance except through appointment. They feel invaded and defeated by the presence of creative folk among them.

I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president — which means, in our time, a dangerous president — unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.