“Teachers loved to say people had potential; that's what teachers did to keep themselves from getting canned. What were they supposed to… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best. — Douglass North Copy Share Image
One colleague who's been in the industry longer than I had been gave me a valuable piece of advice. "Stay close to… — Hark-Joon Lee Copy Share Image
In our desire to please everyone, it's very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective… — Alexander Zinoviev Copy Share Image
If you force someone in the studio ahead of when they're ready for it, then you're probably going to make something mediocre. — John Dolmayan Copy Share Image
There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music. — Edith Piaf Copy Share Image
I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
WeWork is my fifth venture. I failed in my first, second and third, had mediocre success in the fourth. — Adam Neumann Copy Share Image
Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good. — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Great danger is always associated with great power. The difference between the great and the mediocre is that the great are willing… — R.F. Kuang Copy Share Image
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about… — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“If you are not going to divorce the status quo, you will give birth to mediocrity.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
