Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.
Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average
I don't like being mediocre. I won't be.
He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.
For every bourgeois, in the heat of youth, if only for a day, for a minute, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of heroic enterprises. The most mediocre libertine has dreamed of oriental princesses; every rotary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.
I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.
We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.
Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.
Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don't.
How you wake up each day and your morning routine (or lack thereof) dramatically affects your levels of success in every single area of your life. Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days - which inevitably create a successful life - in the same way that unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre mornings generate unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre days, and ultimately a mediocre quality of life. By simply changing the way you wake up in the morning, you can transform any area of your life, faster than you ever thought possible.
But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.
We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!
I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.
I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge
I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me.
I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.
I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.