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In the apocalypse, I think those average, mediocre folks are the ones who are going to live.
Florida surfers learn how to be great on mediocre waves. It trains you, gives you endurance.
I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.
Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.
My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.
I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
The problem with the bank managers was not that they were malevolent but that they were mediocre.
High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.
I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.
Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.
Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
WeWork is my fifth venture. I failed in my first, second and third, had mediocre success in the fourth.
I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.
I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre
Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.
Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves.
I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.
I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.
The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.
I don't believe in doing everything and being mediocre at all of them. I believe in being good at one thing.
I expect to always do well. It's the kind of competitiveness in me. I'm not here to try to just be mediocre.
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.
Unfortunately, because of the breadth of what Yahoo does, they sort of became mediocre in so many properties.
The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.
If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.
I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.
Women right now, we can't make mediocre [stuff]. Men can and do make tons of mediocre stuff, but I feel like women.
I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.
Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
I have made mistakes in my career by associating with films which were mediocre because I needed money at that time.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
In theatre, after the curtain rises, it's all about me. I can either elevate myself with my performance or be mediocre.
There's mediocre jazz, mediocre salesmen, mediocre golfers. If you want to be good, you have to really hone your skills.