Browsing Topic Best Mediocre Quotes

I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know – and that terrifies me.

…the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if we want to) with the exertion of all our strength to attain the highest. Let us scorn what is of this earth, let us ignore what is of heaven, let us leave absolutely everything worldly behind us in order to hasten to the abode out of this world, in the proximity of the sublime deity. We do not need to think of stepping back. Of being satisfied with second rank, let us strive for dignity and glory. To attain the highest.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can’t communicate anything meaningful.

Mediocre design provably wastes the world’s resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

I’d made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

It’s hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.

If you don’t have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre. Is that how you want to live your life?

Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions … I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.

Establishing and maintaining clarity for yourself and what you want is the starting point for success. Thus, maintaining extraordinary clarity is necessary to achieve extraordinary success. The problem is that most people maintain a mediocre level of clarity, which inevitably leads to a mediocre level of success.

So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but isn’t that a mediocre service, which after all we could have done without; and, it is not even to be feared that this artificial language be a veil, interposed between reality and the physicist’s eye? Far from that, without this language most of the initimate analogies of things would forever have remained unknown to us; and we would never have had knowledge of the internal harmony of the world, which is, as we shall see, the only true objective reality.

You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will turn it into a great film.

A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.

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

Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman’s game is mediocre.

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

Mediocre products with great sales teams always beat great products with mediocre sales teams.

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:–and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on–so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

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

If you’re an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day’s letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into midstream… I was a failure-mediocre at advertising work and unable to get started as a writer. Hating the city, I got roaring, weeping drunk on my last penny and went home.

Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.

High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.

There is never a bad time to start a business – unless you want to start a mediocre one.

The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters – small, small differences – but it’s essential. I didn’t think there is such a big difference between photographers. Very little difference. But it is that little difference that counts, maybe

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental – men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost… All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called reality.

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.

I personally can’t think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

All her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.