Mediocre Quotes

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

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

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

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.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.