Top 1200 Mediocre Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can write okay.

Eventually, the time of action must come. When this happens, be a winner! Don't settle for mediocre results. Don't try to stay even. Go for it all!

The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.

Beto O'Rourke speaks in annoyingly pert platitudes like some mediocre yoga instructor who promises to 'build a movement.'

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

I have made mistakes in my career by associating with films which were mediocre because I needed money at that time.

For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

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.

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

If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward.

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

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

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

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.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

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

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre.

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

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

A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.

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

It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Nowadays it is the fashion to pretend that no single individual is ever responsible for a successful advertising campaign. This emphasis on "teamwork" is bunkum - a conspiracy of the mediocre majority.

Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society.

One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.

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

Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.

We truly believe with hard work, dedication and perseverance, we can become the best at what we do. No one wants to become mediocre.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

You don't want to spend your life writing about stuff that doesn't matter. You want to try to pull out of the temporal mediocre and write in a way that is meaningful to everybody. This goes back to this idea of being intimate with your reader. Since we're all down here and we're all dying and aspiring and loving and feeling inadequate, all these things that we all are doing all the time, what a relief it is, when somebody looks at you and says, "Yeah, me too."

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

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Here is the reality - as I've been saying for longer than I can remember, Scott Walker is a mediocre county executive who has risen far beyond his talents.

Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.

A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.

I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

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

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers.