Quotes About Mediocre

The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.

Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

He was a mediocre member of a mediocre school.

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

Denmark can be very small, provincial, and mediocre.

I was a diligent little boy at my primary school and then I went to public school and became mediocre at most things and pretty rubbish at others. I had a really tough time. I didn't enjoy it at all. But it made me the man I am today.

In the apocalypse, I think those average, mediocre folks are the ones who are going to live.

I don't want to be the cranky old guy, but a lot of critics are too forgiving of mediocre artists. When you see these 'American Idol' people on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' being written about as serious artists, there's something wrong with that. You can erase them from the history of rock n' roll, and you wouldn't notice.

I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

Esse tinha muita austeridade e pureza; tais dotes, contudo, não realçavam um espírito superior, apenas compensavam um espírito medíocre.

mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.

lo que distingue a un intérprete virtuoso de otro mediocre es el esfuerzo que cada uno dedica a practicar. Y eso no es todo: los que están en la misma cumbre no es que trabajen un poco o bastante más que todos los demás. Trabajan mucho, mucho más. La

I am stuck with the novel, but it is a good healthy stop; it is the minute when I choose forever one kind of writing from another. It's a desperate moment, but beyond the temporary paralysis, I feel already the joy of a good bold cutting out of the mediocre.

Recapping my skill set: I have poor art skills, mediocre business skills, good but not great writing talent, and an early knowledge of the Internet. And I have a good but not great sense of humor. I'm like one big mediocre soup. None of my skills are world-class, but when my mediocre skills are combined, they become a powerful market force.

You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.

Mediocre men work at their best men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Lines like, "The Fishery serves up huge portions of fresh but mediocre fish to a family-oriented clientele," impressed me with their judicious apportionment of strengths and weaknesses, as did the writers' easy conversance with social types I had never heard of ("chatty alterna-folk," "relaxed Gen-X waitrons").

A superior intellect & sensitive person is not often as comfortable and confident in public as the mediocre minds and/or bumptious people because he thoroughly knows that some will hate his understanding points sheer out of their jealousy, and others particularly duffers' will discuss and debate about his points mere out of their level of understanding to put the basics out of context.

Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.

One mustn't mistake bling for excellence, just as one mustn't mistake quiet for mediocre.

Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.

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. You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.