#mediocre

I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason. ↗

— Joe Shuster

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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

#attempts #conceived #console #discourage #generally

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

— Donna Tartt

#good #good book #i #mediocre #ones

Only a mediocre person is always at his best. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#best #his #mediocre #only #person

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#enemy #friend #mediocre #time #wonderful

I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#could #drums #every #everything #flute

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

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A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

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The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#feels #himself #males #mediocre #most

Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was. ↗

— Joseph Heller

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