Michelangelo
Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet
"I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for."
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Mediocre
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Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre."
Ezra Pound
Poet, Critic
"Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring."
Georges Bernanos
Novelist, Essayist
"...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre."
Douglass North
Economist
"My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best."
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"We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre."
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"Preserve your energy - do not waste it on mediocre activity."
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"Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre"
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"All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future."
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"Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior."
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"To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness."
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"God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm."
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"A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been."
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"Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge"
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"Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre."
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"The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable."
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"To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre."
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"Only mediocre people are at the best all the time."
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"Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre"
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"Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price."
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"Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal."
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"He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word."
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"We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose."
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"I think there are times when you're jamming with the universe, and other times when it feels like no matter how hard I work, no matter how good a person I am, I will always be punished for being mediocre."
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"There is only good art and mediocre art."
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