“I sometimes marvel that a third-rate writer like me has been able to palm himself off as a second-rate writer.” — John Collier Copy Share Image
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for… — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive. — Mary Jane Ward Copy Share Image
If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Look, I do not control alpinism. But maybe I was too successful. Many in the mountaineering scene - journalists, second-rate climbers, lecturers,… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
There is a rawness and a wonder to life. Pursue it. Hunt for it. Sell out to get it. Don't listen to… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
Buddha and Christ were second-rate heroes. The greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. They put forth no claims for themselves,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate?… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.' — David Morrell Copy Share Image
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else” — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“always be a first-rate version of your self instead of a second-rate version of someone else.” — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't,… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
“Because politics is the science of the possible, it only appeals to second-rate minds. The first raters only interested in the impossible” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Don't be a second rate version of someone else, when you can be a first rate version of yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of being a second-rate version of someone else.” — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in… — Stephen Neill Copy Share Image
Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
Do not let anyone, of any sex, tell you that your intuitions and insights, your wisdom and your understandings, are somehow second-rate… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy. — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that. — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
It is better to be yourself than a second-rate, trying hard copycat of somebody else. The trick is to be you at… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and… — Wayne Kramer Copy Share Image
the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
