#mediocre

At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#black #good #great #had #mediocre

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre. ↗

— Steven Chu

#average #brother #comparison #cumulative #decidedly

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

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

No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#his #living #man #mediocre #phase

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

— Condoleezza Rice

#great teachers #greatest #i #mediocre #mom

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#absence #candles #diminishes #extinguishes #fans

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

#complete #day #enjoyed #evidently #had

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version. ↗

— Jason Ritter

#embarrassing #even #i #i tried #mediocre

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#badly #behaved #dirty #i #i am