Mediocre Quotations

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

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.

I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

My high-school years were so mediocre - I moved out when I was 16 and started living with my girlfriend who was 10 years older. Apart from that, I was just a video nerd.

The fact is that Superman isn't around because he is the oldest superhero. He's still around because he is a great superhero. He's the guy that spawned the entire genre, and that didn't happen because it was a mediocre idea.

Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out.

The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he just works so hard that he achieves beyond what you would think. 'Overachiever' is sort of a - it's sort of an incorrect term. An overachiever is someone that's just willing to pay the price to get so much more out of his performance.

I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.

For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies.

I had studied piano since I was 13, but I was surrounded by students who'd been playing since they were 5. I realized I was never going to be anything but mediocre.

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.

A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.

Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are better than mediocre ones is smelling new public concerns over the horizon before they are picked up by polls - before the public even knows to call them 'issues' at all.

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 was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.

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.

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre...

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.

If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there's a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric.

The Grand Old Party's abiding affection for a 'bigger and better' presidency isn't entirely logical. After all, the Obama presidency commenced with an effort to reenact the Hundred Days. Yet President Obama's first-term economic performance itself was not 'big' but mediocre - tiny, even.

I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I do worry about the blurring of an author's public persona with the work itself. A good 'performer' can make a mediocre book sound strong, and a shy author can leave listeners missing the excellence of his or her writing.

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

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

Night in and night out, you don't know which Chicago Bulls team is going to show up. The horrible team, the mediocre team or the team that's good. We have like three different faces.

My limited theater experience was when I was a kid starting out: two or three plays. I was good in one and mediocre in the other. My problem is that I have other interests.

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.

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

I couldn't have scripted the (T-Town) game any better to get us prepared for the game (tonight). The kids needed to see first hand how poorly they could play in the postseason. If we don't go out and play to our strengths, against big physical teams, were mediocre at best.

Growth looks more likely to stay below than to rise above 2.5 in the foreseeable future. A further decline in inflation, coupled with mediocre growth, will likely tilt the balance towards further rate cuts later this year.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

I feel like I had a very mediocre year. I believe just being able to go through it is one way to get better. I've been through more situations. That's all going to help.

For us to be .500 and not playing defense the way we need to play, mediocre is the right word. We should not accept being .500 right now. We expect more of ourselves and we should have a better record than we have.

Building assets is very, very challenging unless you have a good story to tell. There are a lot of funds out there with mediocre stories to tell.

We told our kids at halftime that football is a game of peaks and valleys. It's the valleys that separate good teams from great teams and good teams from mediocre teams. I think our kids showed character and responded when we needed them to.

He was one of the youngest starting pitchers in the International League last year. He had some really, really good starts, and some mediocre ones. But for the overall numbers for a kid that young in Triple-A, it was a pretty good year.

He came in as a mediocre penalty killer at the beginning of the season and now he's part of our top four. He's taken every assignment we've given him, taken it with grace and done a great job at it.

Longer term adoption will depend more on business models and content offerings than on the technology or devices. Our research shows that there's strong consumer interest in consuming mobile video. Consumers are just not interested in paying large fees for mediocre content.

Like medieval peasants, computer manufacturers and millions of users are locked in a seemingly eternal lease with their evil landlord, who comes around every two years to collect billions of dollars of taxes in return for mediocre services

Some men are born Mediocre men, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them

President Chen has been constrained by both the opposition parties and factions in his own party. I would say President Chen has done a mediocre job on foreign policy, and an equally mediocre job on domestic policy.

Part of the reason why Willingham didn't have a long tenure is because he followed a mediocre coach, ... You can't follow years of mediocrity and expect to get top high school recruits. The UW will have the same problem.

Part of that stretch where we were a mediocre hockey team was because we were getting mediocre goaltending. They weren't getting the big saves when we needed them. Sometimes you need those heroic saves to steal a game. Bernd and Drew are now giving us that consistently.

I see many founders waste too much time trying to work their networks and/or ultimately settle for mediocre but available candidates. You will definitely have to interview hard for cultural fit, but the best talent isn't cheap.

I think there are some band members extremely keen to start making a record, and there are others who are more cautious because they don't want to mess with the legacy. They may be afraid that if we make a mediocre record that it will still come out, because the money has been spent. That's fair enough.

Our judges will not continue to represent the diverse face of America if only the well-to-do or the mediocre are willing to become judges.

It definitely gives you confidence. Like last year and earlier this year, you're winning a game and losing one, and you go back and forth like a mediocre team. Finally, you're putting some wins together, and it gives you a lot of confidence going into your next game.

Other than Oscar, the rest of the team played pretty mediocre for our standards. It was a very tough course, but the guys hung in there.

Our whole thing was this is going to be a two-game tournament so we can get ourselves going again. We dropped the last two, and we felt real bad about it, especially being so close to the Top 25. Now, we got Dayton coming in here, GW coming in here. Both of them are real good teams. We didn't want to just get back on track with some mediocre teams. We have to get on track with a really good squad.

Our game doesn't change. We can't have a mediocre game. We have to have a good game.

I thought we played very mediocre today. We're capable of shooting 20-under par as a team tomorrow. We need our guys to play well tomorrow to win.

I think it's a mediocre division again at best.

I think we're getting mixed messages. Good news one day, mediocre news the next, and bad news after that.

I think we're going to be marking time ahead of the economic numbers Thursday and Friday. I think it will be a fairly mediocre open and I wouldn't expect the markets to do very much today.

I was mediocre and I put Tiger in some tough spots. Certainly I enjoyed playing with Tiger and Retief and Adam but I just didn't play well. Your shortcomings show in the alternate shot format and playing with the best player in the world it showed today. I couldn't help Tiger at all.

Today's manufacturing output figures were mediocre and disappointing overall,

Most kids get As and Bs in here because if it's mediocre work, I'll have them go back and do it again.

You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.

You can have all the talent in the world and have a mediocre team. You see it all the time. The bottom line is it's all about coaching. The success of a football team has everything to do with leadership at the top.

We ended up getting a ton of mediocre shots. The longer we did that, the more they got confidence that they could stay in the game. Then we got ourselves in a hole that we had a tough time digging ourselves out of. We got three shots at the end, but we never should have been in that situation.

We're playing mediocre ball right now. There's a lot of guys who need that day off, mentally and physically.

We're an injury away from being mediocre or bad.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Television is such a mediocre medium.

The outlook remains poor, ... Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth and record trade deficits all bode poorly for economic growth and jobs creation.

The outlook remains poor. Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth and record trade deficits all bode poorly for economic growth and jobs creation.

The overall tone of the report is pretty mediocre at this point.

When a band becomes as truly iconic as the Velvet Underground, there will often be a box set released, overburdened with mediocre material that dilutes what was fine left on its own.

We won the state title despite playing a mediocre game. We knew we had to bring a different brand of basketball if we wanted to have any hope of winning the Federation.

Be special. Be anything but mediocre.

I do know that the best way to make a mediocre movie is to just transcribe the book.

I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.

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!

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. The script must be something that has the power to do this

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.

Workers should be treated as individual professional public servants, not as bureaucrats. We tend to give everyone the same raise whether they're a fantastic worker or a mediocre worker.

Would any of his aides have the nerve to tell him that as Supreme Court jurists go, Gonzales would be mediocre - and not a solid bet to move the court in a constitutionalist direction? Would any of them have the nerve to explain to the president that a Gonzales nomination would utterly demoralize many of his supporters, who are sticking with him and his party, through troubles in Iraq and screw-ups with Hurricane Katrina, precisely because they want a few important things out of a Bush presidency - and one of these is a more conservative court?

Envy is the religion of the mediocre

Until we figure out that we're not going to outscore teams all the time and that we'll have to defend and rebound before we think about scoring, we're going to be a mediocre team. That's something we're going to have to improve on this summer.

There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.

Unless energy prices ease, the holiday shopping season will probably be mediocre at best.

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

The talent is so close in the NFL that you're standing on the razor's edge of being an elite team and being a mediocre team, ... The Colts are one injury to Peyton Manning from being a .500 football team. Every team in the NFL is like that.

We watched a lot of film, just trying to get answers and trying to figure out what causes us to play that way. We were definitely embarrassed by a mediocre team. We don't want to be a team that's great one night and terrible the next night. We have to do whatever it takes to be a consistent team.