Quotes About Mediocre

I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.

If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its future - to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one.

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

A completed mediocre idea is infinitely better than an unfinished stroke of genius.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

We must see that we are afraid of the thing we most desire, and so we live a mediocre life, never bringing to consummation the primary impulse of our heart.

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.

proposed an antidote to the deadening impact of capitalist spectacle in what he named "constructed situations," which calls on artists to create moments that coax people out of passivity, rendering them the co-creators of what promises to be, according to Debord, a less mediocre life.

Teachers loved to say people had potential; that's what teachers did to keep themselves from getting canned. What were they supposed to say- I'm sorry, your kid has no promise whatsoever? She's utterly mediocre in every way?

America's young people deserve more than a mediocre future - and we now have demonstrated proof that President Trump is building a path for our success.

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

I don't complain of conventional morality. I complain rather of the mediocre heretics who seize upon the findings of sophistication and adopt the pose of a moral freedom to which they are by no means entitled by their intelligences.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

After the mediocre 'Final Fantasy XIII' and the sheer disaster that was 'Final Fantasy XIV,' many fans have lost faith in the RPG titan.

There are a lot worse things you can do with all your bucks than giving them to even a mediocre mutual fund - such as, for example, giving them to a mediocre hedge fund. If supporting the lifestyle of a mediocre fund manager is your favorite charity, who am I to stop you?

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

You can't test great advertising. You can only test the mediocre. Not that I don't care about demographics. You have to understand who you're going after.

Actually, the full bell curve goes: brilliant; pretty good; mediocre; mediocre and interminable; dire; vile; dire and vile; and dire, vile, and interminable.