Second-rate Quotes

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.