A Quote by Maurice Ravel

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

Maurice Ravel

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Maurice Ravel
French - Composer
March 7, 1875 - December 28, 1937

You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel.

Maurice Ravel

If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

Sarah Waters

I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

John Updike

The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.

Willa Cather

I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.

Sarah Waters

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Abraham Maslow

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

Gerald Finzi

First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art.

Clive James

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

Charles Caleb Colton

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

Andre Weil

I am reading Sienkiewicz. What tormenting reading. What a powerful genius! And there never was such a first-rate writer of the second-rate class.

Witold Gombrowicz

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.

David Morrell

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'

David Morrell

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Doris Lessing

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