#mediocre

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre. ↗

— Orson Welles

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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question. ↗

— Ira Glass

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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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My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Donna Tartt

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre. ↗

— Chet Atkins

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With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ↗

— Simone Weil

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