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  • Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to say something that will command the respect of the intelligent, the educated, the independent part of the community; to rise above fear of partisanship and fear of popular prejudice. I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

  • Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.

    "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.
  • Mediocre founders spend a lot of time talking about grand plans, but they never quite make a decision.

  • One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

  • I believe that creativity is a product of intelligence. I don't believe that creative work can be produced by fools, dullards, or mediocre people, except in the rarest of accidents. Creativity is a product of desire, thought, experience, experimentation and inner conviction. Taken together, these five qualities imply intelligence and commitment.

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

  • Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • It is our argument that a sufficiently low price can turn a security of mediocre quality into a sound investment opportunity - provided that the buyer is informed and experienced and he practices adequate diversification. For, if the price is low enough to create a substantial margin of safety, the security thereby meets our criterion of investment.

  • Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

    Avid   Talent   Mediocre  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

    Film   Ninety   Mediocre  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

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

  • 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.

    Sex   War   Believe  
    Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.483, Random House
  • I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

    Passion   Boss   Special  
    "Elena Ferrante: 'Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing'". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2016.
  • If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

    Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2016). “Love is a Stranger”, p.24, Shambhala Publications
  • For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and by clearing each level I elevate myself. At least that’s why I’ve put in the effort day after day: to raise my own level. I’m no great runner, by any means. I’m at an ordinary – or perhaps more like mediocre – level. But that’s not the point. The point is whether or not I improved over yesterday. In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

    Running   Distance   Mean  
    FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 03, 2015
  • Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great works inspire greatness. Mediocre or poor works inspire mediocre or poor learning. The great accomplishments of humanity are the key to quality education.

    Artist   Greatness   Keys  
  • I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him.

    Mistake   Taken   Men  
  • ...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think.

  • You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.

  • I think the key that differentiates the good actors from the mediocre ones that are still trying to come up, is that the good ones know how to listen. It's like being in a jazz band. They know how to listen to what the other musicians are playing. And where to come in and where to sit out. That's my approach to being in an ensemble cast and working with any kind of actors in a scene.

    Thinking   Keys   Trying  
    Source: collider.com
  • So is not mathematical analysis then not just a vain game of the mind? To the physicist it can only give a convenient language; but isn't that a mediocre service, which after all we could have done without; and, it is not even to be feared that this artificial language be a veil, interposed between reality and the physicist's eye? Far from that, without this language most of the initimate analogies of things would forever have remained unknown to us; and we would never have had knowledge of the internal harmony of the world, which is, as we shall see, the only true objective reality.

    Eye   Science   Reality  
    "Statistical Mechanics of Disordered Systems: A Mathematical Perspective". Book by Anton Bovier, p. 3, 2006.
  • Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.

    Mistake   Ikea   People  
    "The miracle of Älmhult" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2004.
  • Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.

    Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.8, Vintage
  • Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

    Given   Mediocre   Prize  
  • Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

    Real   Moving   Leader  
  • Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

  • There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats.

    Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 14, 2012.
  • Here is the reality - as I've been saying for longer than I can remember, Scott Walker is a mediocre county executive who has risen far beyond his talents.

    "Scott Walker Presidential Bid Self-Destructs On ABC's 'This Week'". www.forbes.com. February 2, 2015.
  • Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

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