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Television is such a mediocre medium. — Elizabeth Montgomery

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

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. — Ray Bradbury

The tragedy of mediocrity is that even mediocre people shake their heads and mull over how standard are falling.
- Serious Men — Manu Joseph

What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different. — V.C. Andrews

In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to rely on. — Jonah Lehrer

It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her. — Ivan Turgenev

Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past. — Maurice Maeterlinck

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! — Ming-Dao Deng

You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own. — Gilberto Hernandez

Don't embrace mediocrity; its main charm is to make you fall in love with failure. Speed off ... Excellence awaits you at the end of your journey! — Israelmore Ayivor

Scheming is mediocre. — Vipin Behari Goyal

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful. — G. Willow Wilson

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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

Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power. — Quintilian

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre. — Rebecca Goldstein

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

Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message — Seth Godin

That the best students from mediocre schools were almost always a better bet than good students from the very best schools. — Malcolm Gladwell

I don't believe in doing everything and being mediocre at all of them. I believe in being good at one thing. — Sofia Boutella

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

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning. — Renee Vivien

A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires. — William Arthur Ward

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Wanting to be the best in what you do but unwilling to be slain by critics on the way to your top is a recipe to remain mediocre... — Assegid Habtewold

Life is pitifully mediocre without passion. Never let anyone take your passion away from you. — Keely Brooke Keith

Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don't. — Barbra Streisand

I don't like being mediocre. I won't be. — Mike Milbury

Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre — Leo Tolstoy

Why should I hold back now and sound mediocre, just so I can sound mediocre twenty years from now? — Janis Joplin

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. — Moby

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp. — Carson McCullers

People stop trying when there's no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre. — Frank Sonnenberg

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

There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time. — Jill Robinson

Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art. — Patti Smith

A high church for the true mediocre. — Norman Mailer

Denmark can be very small, provincial, and mediocre. — Thomas Vinterberg

Only a mediocre man is always at his best, — Neil Peart

I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me. — Patrice O'Neal

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin. — Spencer W. Kimball

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

If you stay passionate and committed, mediocrity will never be eager to befriend you. — Israelmore Ayivor

I would rather be a spectacular failure than a mediocre success. — Kuo Pao Kun

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry. — F Scott Fitzgerald

For their kind do not know what it is to risk everything in the endeavor to rise above the mediocre. — Kazuo Ishiguro

The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

I may not be the best at anything, but I can be better than mediocre. — Krista Ritchie

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

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

I'm not a big fan of mediocre. — Marcia Gay Harden

Mediocre times beget empty prophets — Albert Camus

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. — Michael Caine

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad. — Friedrich Nietzsche

If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change! — Israelmore Ayivor

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results. — Orrin Woodward

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. — Pope Francis

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk. — Rudolf Bing

Life without madness is mediocrity. — Nelou Keramati

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. — Haruki Murakami

Mediocre work stutters, good work whispers, great work speaks, but extraordinary work shouts. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version. — Jason Ritter

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

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

When you tolerate mediocrity, you get more of it. — Frank Sonnenberg

If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre. — Rafael Cruz

It has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre ... — Robert Harris

You don't set off in life to be mediocre. At least, I don't. — Willie Robertson

There is no trivia in a strategic mind. — Toba Beta

I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world. — Michael Arndt

Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort — Manoj Arora

If God wanted you to live a mediocre life, He wouldn't have made you so awesome. Never apologize for being designed to succeed. — Steve Maraboli

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. — Jean De La Bruyere

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat! — Martin Firrell

There are challenges and opposition, everywhere! But we will fight the fight of faith! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Mediocrist (n.) A person of mediocre talents. Nobody wants to be mediocre, but someone has to be. In fact, by definition, most people are. Microphily — Ammon Shea

Not being impressed by anyone or anything is one of the surest paths to a life of mediocrity. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

Flat fields produce mediocre grapes, but rolling hills produce the greatest grapes. Why? Because the vines must struggle for survival. — Billy Cannon

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments. — Joseph Joubert

Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals! — Pope Francis

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. — Joseph Heller

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre. — Joseph Joubert

The mediocre spouse tells. The good spouse explains. The superior spouse demonstrates. The great spouse encourages. — GE Paulus

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. — Lauren Mayberry

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

Only mediocre ideas can be tested. — George Lois

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre. — Dorothy Day

Say that evil happens when good men do nothing. And the Democrats prove it also happens when mediocre people do nothing. — Bill Maher

Enriched vocabularies someone had (and used) are produced by a boundless wondrous mind. Sometime with a non mediocre experience also. — Nin

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

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. — Steven Van Zandt

It takes character to sit there with all that cash and do nothing. I didn't get to where I am by going after mediocre opportunities. — Charlie Munger

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

The life of a couple is lived on the mental level of the more mediocre of the two beings who compose it. — Andre Maurois

The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires. — Gary Patton

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. — George Allen