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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If you stay passionate and committed, mediocrity will never be eager to befriend you.
— Israelmore Ayivor
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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[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
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
The life of a couple is lived on the mental level of the more mediocre of the two beings who compose it.
— Andre Maurois
