The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't… — Moby Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody's goal is to be mediocre. I think everybody should want to be the best. I've always felt that… — Justin Verlander Copy Share Image
Here is the reality - as I've been saying for longer than I can remember, Scott Walker is a mediocre county executive… — Rick Ungar Copy Share Image
Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women. — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys… — Sean William Scott Copy Share Image
“Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
I think there are times when you're jamming with the universe, and other times when it feels like no matter how hard… — Mackenzie Davis Copy Share Image
When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
The failure to find the right niche for people - or to let them find their own perfect niches - is a… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Having an identity at work separate from an identity at home means that the work role can help absorb some of the… — Faye J Crosby Copy Share Image
For many of us, the opposite of talking isn't listening. It's waiting. When others speak, we typically divide our attention between what… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I've accepted the fact that because I'm human, I'm terrific in one thing, good at some, mediocre at a bit more, and… — Bo Sanchez 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
One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
A sacred pride should grip us of not being satisfied with the mediocre but to strive (for we can do it, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Only the mediocre are always at their best. If your standards are low, it is easy to meet those standards every single… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
I make a lot of pots in a year's time and some of them are good and some of them are mediocre… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Now, today, some children are enrolled in excellent programs. Some children are enrolled in mediocre programs. And some are wasting away their… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Like the Arthurian years at Camelot, the Sixties constituted a breakthrough, a fleeting moment of glory, a time when a significant little… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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