Quotes About Mediocre

if his efforts are mediocre, we're likely to let him live. If he shows us brilliance, we'll kill him.

Never underestimate a writer's vanity, especially that of a mediocre writer. (The Angel's Game)

La política es a menudo refugio de artistas mediocres y fracasados.

La política es a menudo refugio de artistas mediocres y fracasados. Allí pueden medrar, adquirir poder con que darse aires y sobre todo vengarse de todos aquellos que han logrado con su trabajo y su talento lo que ellos nunca han conseguido ni siquiera rozar al tiempo que declaran, con aire de santidad y sacrificio, que todo lo hacen por el servicio a la patria

I was a mediocre basketball player. But I was there, and I could remember the plays. And my basketball coach, after he retired from teaching, would come to my performances all the time. And I was very happy about that, because I was not memorable as a basketball player.

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

Most child welfare agencies tend to embrace secrecy because the people who lead them tend to be mediocre and don't want you to see how poor a job they are doing.

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

So you think that you're a failure, do ya? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you have any sense at all, 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.

Wasn't there a surplus in life of the boring, the repetitive, the mediocre, and the tame? Shouldn't she be glad, grateful for this intrusion of the unexpected and unexplained?

He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.

An artist, in giving a concert, should not demand an entrance fee but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving as much as they like. From the sum he would be able to judge what the world thinks of him — and we would have fewer mediocre concerts.

Contemporary architecture was of necessity mediocre.

It's well known that our inept homegrown police of all eras have always shown unerring taste in poets and writers - they always manage to kill the most talented and leave the most mediocre.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving ... if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.

I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.

we live on a cosmic speck of dust, orbiting a mediocre star in the far suburbs of a common sort of galaxy, among a hundred billion galaxies in the universe.

A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.

Hero­ism breaks its heart, and ide­al­ism its back, on the intran­si­gence of the cred­u­lous and the mediocre, manip­u­lated by the cyn­i­cal and the corrupt.

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

It was a town like some towns in the American South, frozen in its history as Lot's wife was trapped in salt, and doomed, therefore, as its history, that overwhelming, omnipresent gift of God, could not be questioned, to be the property of the gray, unquestioning mediocre.

The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.