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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.
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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
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A bestseller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
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First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds .
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I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
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No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
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The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
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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.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
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