Second Rate Quotes

88 quotes by 70 authors

We're worn into grooves by Time-by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each… — Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.
The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their courage and enterprise,… — H.G. Wells
He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming… — Leo Buscaglia
But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate. — Gerald Finzi
You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. — Maurice Ravel
Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates… — David Ogilvy
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. — Jean de la Bruyere
First-rate science fiction was, and remains, more interesting than second-rate art. — Clive James
There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi. — Luis Walter Alvarez
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials — Natalia Ginzburg
There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate. — Christopher Bram
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. — Andre Weil
Astronomy is something like the ministry. No one should go into it without a call. I got that unmistakable call, and I know that even… — Edwin Powell Hubble
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
Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. — G. H. Hardy
The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl… — H.G. Wells
Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin? — Maurice Ravel
After 10 years TNA talent still have an inferiority complex. If you don't think that you work for the BEST COMPANY EVER then nobody else… — Chris Jericho
A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. — Patrick Kavanagh
It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business. — Robert Kennedy

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