Quotes About Mediocre

Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.

More generally, the financial benefits of self-employment are mediocre: given the same qualifications, people achieve higher average returns by selling their skills to employers than by setting out on their own. The

Leaders who have been lucky are never punished for having taken too much risk. Instead, they are believed to have had the flair and foresight to anticipate success, and the sensible people who doubted them are seen in hindsight as mediocre, timid, and weak.

More generally, the financial benefits of self-employment are mediocre: given the same qualifications, people achieve higher average returns by selling their skills to employers than by setting out on their own. The evidence suggests that optimism is widespread, stubborn, and costly.

mediocre amount of intelligence is sometimes most dangerous. It does not take one far enough.

My physical appearance is very average.

I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their friend, they don't want to be threatened by you, you've got to be warm, you've got to be not too smart, not too pretty, not too anything.

We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU!

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.

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

She recited the only prayer Laura had ever taught her. "God grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man.

There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.

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

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

Fate would never permit happiness to a man of such talent-a content poet is a mediocre one, a happy poet is insufferable.

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

I just don't think it honors God to create mediocre art.

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

I am the queen of mediocre, the king of nothingness

Well," said Miss Goering, "perhaps my maneuvers do seem a little strange, but I have thought for a long time now that often, so very often, heroes who believe themselves to be monsters because they are so far removed from other men turn around much later and see really monstrous acts being committed in the name of something mediocre.