Mittelmäßig / Mediocre Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Mittelmäßig / Mediocre:

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. Joseph Heller

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

Renee Vivien

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Simone Weil

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Chet Atkins

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

Scott Caan

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Sophia Loren

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

Uta Hagen

If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.

Sam Altman

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

Television is such a mediocre medium.

Elizabeth Montgomery

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.

Dan Levitan

If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.

Moby

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

Marilyn Hacker

Denmark can be very small, provincial, and mediocre.

Thomas Vinterberg

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

Brigitte Bardot

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

Danny Strong

There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.

Jill Robinson

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.

Nancy Sinatra

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

Samuel Goldwyn

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.

Billy Wilder

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

Brigitte Bardot

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

Helen Garner

Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.

Andre Dubus III

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

John Corigliano

Nobody ever starts out to make a mediocre, commercial film. You always think it's going to be something. And then, once you're done with your shooting, you have no control. You're just done, as an actor.

Janeane Garofalo

I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.

Andy Richter

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

Kirsten Dunst

Unfortunately, because of the breadth of what Yahoo does, they sort of became mediocre in so many properties.

Susan Decker

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

Donna Tartt

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

Marcia Gay Harden

The term 'overachiever' sort of makes it look like the person has mediocre talent and he just works so hard that he achieves beyond what you would think. 'Overachiever' is sort of a - it's sort of an incorrect term. An overachiever is someone that's just willing to pay the price to get so much more out of his performance.

Rick Pitino

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

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader.

Robert Teeter

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.

Comte de Lautreamont