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Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.
Nick Saban
'Those who strive for success are disdained by those content with mediocrity, and those content with mediocrity are scorned by those striving for success.'
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If you have a great band with a mediocre drummer, you have a mediocre band. If you have a mediocre band with a great drummer, you have a great band!
Duke Ellington
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I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.
Doug Stanhope
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Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
Joe Klein
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I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.
Michelangelo
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I've accepted the fact that because I'm human, I'm terrific in one thing, good at some, mediocre at a bit more, and terrible at others. And if you're human, you are too. You'll have to discover the one thing that you are good at and major in it.
Bo Sanchez
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Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.
Randy Pausch
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Mediocre people don't like high achievers and high achievers don't like mediocre people.
Nick Saban
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.
Sophia Loren
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If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.
Hugh B. Brown
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I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
Patrice O'Neal
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Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.
Francoise Giroud
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Mediocre people are the most dangerous people in the world.
Bill Cosby
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...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.
Georges Bernanos
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
Ezra Pound
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Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.
Dorothy Day
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My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
Douglass North
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What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.
Jonathan Brandis
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We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
Billy Wilder
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Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.
Terry Gilliam
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Preserve your energy - do not waste it on mediocre activity.
Stuart Wilde
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For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.
M. Night Shyamalan
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To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.
Junior Seau
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High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.
Guy Kawasaki
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It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.
Ivan Turgenev
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When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.
Giacomo Casanova
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Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.
Abbi Jacobson
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All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.
Tony Robbins
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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
George Bernard Shaw
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God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.
Joyce Meyer
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A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.
Murray Walker
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If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
Tony Judt
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Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.
George Clooney
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I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
Donna Tartt
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The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre.
Christopher Caldwell
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La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.
Alfred Jarry
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Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.
Tom Peters