Mediocre Quotes · Page 9

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to…

— Albert Camus

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

— Tom Stoppard

“Do not get a job for a living. Rather, get work”

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— George Allen

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

— Elizabeth Hardwick

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

— Hugh B. Brown

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

— Rumi

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

— Rick Pitino

Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I…

— Minnie Driver

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they…

— Anonymous

“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature…

— Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans

I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.

— Patti Smith

How can we help a child change from undependable to dependable, from a mediocre student to a capable student, from someone who…

— Haim Ginott

I believe that creativity is a product of intelligence. I don't believe that creative work can be produced by fools, dullards, or…

— Bruce Barnbaum

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

— Neil Patrick Harris

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that…

— Ira Glass

The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar,…

— Kat Dennings

It is our argument that a sufficiently low price can turn a security of mediocre quality into a sound investment opportunity -…

— Benjamin Graham

For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him…

— Northrop Frye

Most people who are deemed 'mean' are usually perfectionist who make mediocre people unhappy, cause they put more pressure on them then…

— Lee Clow

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

— Georges Bernanos

I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is…

— Walter Moers