Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession,… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
There's too much bad. The worst is mediocre. Bad is easy. There's high quality, there's pornography, and then there's bad. — Henry Blodget Copy Share Image
Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important. — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
You can give a great film idea to a mediocre team and they may screw it up, but if you give a… — Edwin Catmull Copy Share Image
It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy, then you have unconsciously made the decision to… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I would not encourage you to go through the sweat, blood, and tears of the recovery process only to reach some kind… — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One mustn't mistake bling for excellence, just as one mustn't mistake quiet for mediocre. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
