Mediocre Quotes

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Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths of the gorillas than if… — Robert M. Sapolsky
Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their… — Knut Hamsun
Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre. — Joseph Joubert
Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average — Alonzo King
The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a… — Peter Drucker
Eat, drink, and be merry is perfectly good in itself; nothing is wrong in it. But it is not enough. Soon you will get tired… — Rajneesh
The difference between a good picture and a mediocre picture is a question of millimeters - small, small differences - but itâ€™s essential. I didnâ€™t… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
If you don't have passion, everything you do will ultimately fizzle out or, at best, be mediocre. Is that how you want to live your… — Donald Trump
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in… — Raymond Queneau
To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music. — Edith Piaf
I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them. — Andy Richter
Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful. — G. Willow Wilson
If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be… — Moby
I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre. — Moby
Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the… — Steven Chu
Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and… — Jean Giraudoux
To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre. — Elbert Hubbard
As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual. — Elbert Hubbard

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