#mediocre

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. ↗

— Alan Turing

#american #brain #company #developing #i

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#knowledge #mediocre #mediocre men #men #most

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. ↗

— George Allen, Sr.

#achieve #because #determined #know #mediocre

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria. ↗

— Mario Batali

#austria #croatia #food #germany #great

I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get the guy. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#because #comedies #dresses #felt #get

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#directing #great #great man #i #man

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#better #excellence #mediocre #mediocre men #men

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#born #mediocre #mediocrity #men #some

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#allowed #average #bourgeois #end #everything

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment. ↗

— Scott Caan

#compliment #director #good #his #i