Top 1200 Mediocre Minds Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

When something out of the ordinary happens, it is ridiculous to say that it is a mystery or a portent of something to come... the mystery is created in (their) minds, and by waiting for disaster, it is from their very minds that it occurs.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

If Cargo is a catalyst to spark policy, that would be great. The more we're able to use it as an educational tool, the more it's a building block in youths' minds and peoples' minds to enact policy.

The mediocre golfer generally is one who is too lazy to play better.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

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

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money.

For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on.

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.

Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves.

Nobody wants to be in a mediocre organization. You don't have the same energy flowing through.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Preserve your energy - do not waste it on mediocre activity.

Naked and pure is the spirit that transcends the existence mediocre.

The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.

When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of the miraculous. When people contemplate with open minds the germination of a single seed, they are equally overwhelmed-yet numerous babies are born every day, and no-one marvels. If only people opened their minds, they would see that the birth of a baby, in which a new life is created, is a greater miracle than restoring life.

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

Minds are in limited supply, and each mind has a limited capacity for memes, and hence there is considerable competition among memes for entry in as many minds as possible.

The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

Ponder the significance of the responsibility the Lord has given to us. The Lord has counseled, "Let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds." (D&C 43:34.) You cannot do that when your minds are preoccupied with the cares of the world.

I didn't want to play a mediocre villain. I wanted to go full-on.

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

No extraordinary result ever came from mediocre effort.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.

"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.

In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.

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

I just don't think it honors God to create mediocre art.

I believe when you work hard, even if you are a mediocre actor, the audience connects to you.

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

I was a mediocre B-average student throughout my school years.

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way.