Mediocre Quotes - page 2

The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book. (Camille Paglia)
[A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value. View quote
Georges Bernanos
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. View quote
Albert Camus
A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. View quote
John Edensor Littlewood
Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called reality. View quote
Gottfried Helnwein
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. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society. View quote
Aleksandr Zinovyev
Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results. View quote
Warren Buffett
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. View quote
Warren Buffett
Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past. View quote
Maurice Maeterlinck
I do not know whether it is the view of the Court that a judge must be thick-skinned or just thick-headed, but nothing in my experience or observation confirms the idea that he is insensitive to publicity. Who does not prefer good to ill report of his work? And if fame - a good public name - is, as Milton said, the "last infirmity of noble mind", it is frequently the first infirmity of a mediocre one. (Robert H. Jackson)
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre. View quote
Samuel Goldwyn
The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make - for the more new things he will try. I would never promote a man into a top level job who had not made mistakes, and big ones at that. Otherwise he is sure to be mediocre. View quote
Peter Drucker
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. View quote
Albert Einstein
Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style. View quote
Michael Schumacher
I wish that people would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved (by large studies); the statistical method gives only mediocre results; some recent examples demonstrate that. The American authors, who love to do things big, often publish experiments that have been conducted on hundreds and thousands of people; they instinctively obey the prejudice that the persuasiveness of a work is proportional to the number of observations. This is only an illusion. View quote
Alfred Binet
I don't believe in doing everything and being mediocre at all of them. I believe in being good at one thing. View quote
Sofia Boutella
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic. View quote
Comte de Lautreamont
I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go. (Uta Hagen)
The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.' View quote
Adam Carolla
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre. View quote
Chet Atkins
I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre. View quote
Danny Strong
Television is such a mediocre medium. View quote
Elizabeth Montgomery