Mediocre Quotes - Page 4

Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

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

To be popular I must be mediocre.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.

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.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

I think there are times when you're jamming with the universe, and other times when it feels like no matter how hard I work, no matter how good a person I am, I will always be punished for being mediocre.

He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me.

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

With a director it's all about the work; I'd work with a great director over - you know, I'm not the kind of actor who that doesn't go, 'I want to play this role.' It's more like, 'I want to work with this director,' regardless of what the role is because if it's a good director, you'll probably find a good role because it's a decent film. But a mediocre director will always make a mediocre movie.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

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

Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

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

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

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Whether you look at these recent PISA results, which we are mediocre at best, whether you look at a 25 percent dropout rate in this country, whether you look at, in one generation, we're not doing what we need to be doing to keep America great.

I do know that the best way to make a mediocre movie is to just transcribe the book.