Mediocre Quotes - Page 5

• You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

  Denis Leary

  Writing, Sound, Actors

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• Puede que me convierta en un intelectual, pero nunca escribiré más que poesía mediocre.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Intellectual, May

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.168, e-artnow

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• That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Worry, Becoming, Being Me

  Rebecca Goldstein (1993). "El problema cuerpo-mente", Penguin Group USA.

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• God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

  Joyce Meyer

  Doe, Enough, Halfway

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• No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

  James Cash Penney

  Men, Should Have, Phases

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• Me ofende haber sido testigo de la supervivencia de algunos actores masculinos muy mediocres y de la desaparición profesional de algunas actrices muy brillantes.

  Helen Mirren

  Survival, Males, Female

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• Lo exquisitamente malo es tan satisfactorio para el alma como lo exquisitamente bueno. Sólo lo mediocre es insoportable.

  Mark Twain

  Soul, Unendurable, Satisfying

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume II: (1877-1883)”, p.142, Univ of California Press

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• Know the story before you fall in love with your first sentence. If you don’t know the story before you begin the story, what kind of a storyteller are you? Just an ordinary kind, just a mediocre kind – making it up as you go along, like a common liar.

  John Irving

  Falling In Love, Liars, Ordinary

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• A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

  Carson McCullers

  Beautiful, Poison, Swamps

  Carson McCullers (1955). “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: And Collected Short Stories”

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• I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

  Helene Hanff

  Libro, Pensamiento

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• For many of us, the opposite of talking isn't listening. It's waiting. When others speak, we typically divide our attention between what they're saying now and what we're going to say next - and end up doing a mediocre job at both.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Jobs, Talking, Opposites

  Daniel H. Pink (2012). “To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others”, p.127, Penguin

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• Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Success, Congratulations

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• I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe in my tribe. I believe in the righteous, intelligent clued-up section of the working classes against the brain-dead moronic masses as well as the mediocre, soulless bourgeoisie.

  Irvine Welsh

  Sex, War, Believe

  Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.483, Random House

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• What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Ordinary, Different, Mediocre Life

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• So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

  Tom Robbins

  Amor, Fracaso, Pensamiento

  "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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• Porque todo burgués, en plena juventud, aunque sólo fuera por un día, por un minuto, se ha creído capaz de pasiones inmensas, de empresas heroicas. El libertino más mediocre ha soñado con princesas orientales; todo rotario lleva dentro de sí los restos de un poeta.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Princesa, Pasión, Rotary

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• The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

  Ray Bradbury

  Correr, escribir, manos

  Ray Bradbury (1951). "Fahrenheit 451: A Novel", Simon and Schuster

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• I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

  Edmund Hillary

  Travel, Adventure, Achieve

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• Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Want, Satisfied, Performances

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• En los grandes Estados la educación pública siempre será mediocre, por la misma razón que en las grandes cocinas la cocina suele ser mala.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, Philosophy, Teaching

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• You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Parent

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• I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance

  Alfred de Vigny

  Stupid, Order, Understanding

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• We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Skills, Numbers

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.12, Harvard Business Review Press

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• He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

  Albert Camus

  Retirement, Moving, Next Move

  Albert Camus (2012). "Muerte feliz", p.82, Vintage

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• There's too much bad. The worst is mediocre. Bad is easy. There's high quality, there's pornography, and then there's bad.

  Henry Blodget

  Quality, Too Much, Easy

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

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