I didn't want to play a mediocre villain. I wanted to go…

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I don't play to be mediocre.

— Kyler Murray

I've become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little, if anything, to do with what…

— Patrick Lencioni

What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy…

— Dan Pallotta

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself...

— Sophia Loren

“The next time you see a sixteen-color, blind-embossed, gold-stamped, die-cut, elaborately folded and bound job, printed on handmade paper, see if it isn't a…

— Milton Glaser

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men…

— Claude Bernard

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

— Agnes Repplier

I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

To run with the majority during the race of life is to be mediocre all of the time and wrong most of the time.

— Len Smith

We create a standard for how we want to do things and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have…

— Nick Saban

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

— Stuart Wilde

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent…

— Nate Silver

I want to be involved in things I can be really proud of. There's a lot of bad films being made and I don't…

— Aisling Loftus