Mediocre Quotes

352 quotes by 273 authors

Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best. — Walter Darby Bannard
The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the… — Napoleon Bonaparte
A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The mediocre mind has no capacity for understanding. It is stuck somewhere near thirteen years in its mental age, or even below it. The person… — Rajneesh
Meditate well so you can be a good instrument of eternity. You could have a mediocre meditation today, but you're not going to. Today you… — Frederick Lenz
It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk. — Rudolf Bing
A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results. — Orrin Woodward
Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically;… — Stephen King
It was a mixed bag pretty much all week. A lot of really, really good stuff out there, some mediocre and some bad. — Tiger Woods
Thatâ€™s the problem with fiction â€” or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until… — Charles McGrath
Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred. — Friedrich Nietzsche
[I]t is necessary to insist upon this extraordinary but undeniable fact: experimental science has progressed thanks in great part to the work of men astoundingly… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Only the mediocre are always at their best. — Jean Giraudoux
It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre. — Samuel Goldwyn
Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better. — Edwin Louis Cole
I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker. — Kirsten Dunst
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. — Albert Einstein
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. — Uta Hagen
I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys. — Neil Patrick Harris
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. — Joseph Heller

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