Mediocre Quotes

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

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

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Bit parts in Mediocre TV shows won't develop your acting chops.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

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 spite of everything.

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well.

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their friend, they don't want to be threatened by you, you've got to be warm, you've got to be not too smart, not too pretty, not too anything.

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.