A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
A. R. Rahman
I would say I am a mediocre Christian.
Abby Johnson
Florida surfers learn how to be great on mediocre waves. It trains you, gives you endurance.
Abigail Spencer
The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'
Adam Carolla
WeWork is my fifth venture. I failed in my first, second and third, had mediocre success in the fourth.
Adam Neumann
It takes a lot of effort to look this mediocre.
Adam Rippon
I think that Tupac was the trendsetter, the high mark. What we hope his music will continue to do is to at least encourage people away from mediocrity, because he was not a mediocre artist. When he was alive, people competed. There was a lot of competition, and a lot of the artists were better for it.
Afeni Shakur
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
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The Grand Old Party's abiding affection for a 'bigger and better' presidency isn't entirely logical. After all, the Obama presidency commenced with an effort to reenact the Hundred Days. Yet President Obama's first-term economic performance itself was not 'big' but mediocre - tiny, even.
Amity Shlaes
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
My long-held fear is that Mr. Obama is hiding something about his education. During the endless 2008 campaign, Mr. Obama would not release his college grades. Given that President George W. Bush and Sens. Al Gore and John Kerry all had proved mediocre grades were no impediment to a presidential bid, Mr. Obama likely had other concerns.
Andrew Breitbart
We truly believe with hard work, dedication and perseverance, we can become the best at what we do. No one wants to become mediocre.
Andy Biersack
I watch mediocre shows that have been on for three or four seasons, and feel angry at them.
Andy Richter
I have played 50 different kinds of fathers and villains. Only mediocre actors play the part the same way.
Anupam Kher
Stock is everything in cooking, at least in French cooking. Without it, nothing can be done. If one's stock is good, what remains of the work is easy; if, on the other hand, it is bad or merely mediocre, it is quite hopeless to expect anything approaching a satisfactory result.
Auguste Escoffier
When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies.
Ben Horowitz
I'm not here to be mediocre.
Billy Butler
I expect to always do well. It's the kind of competitiveness in me. I'm not here to try to just be mediocre.
We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
I could have been a mediocre tap dancer.
The difference between mediocre, good and great is you're able to have the enthusiasm for prep, to work to prepare to win the same in January that you do in August, when everybody says they're excited.
I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.
I don't think anybody wants to be mediocre.
There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there.
I was afraid I'd be typecast forever as a mediocre actress.
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
I've read a hundred fantastic scripts that didn't pan out as films, and I completely put that on the directors. I've also read some mediocre scripts that have ended up being amazing, and I credit that to the directors. They're the storytellers. If you don't have a good storyteller, you really have nothing.
I have made mistakes in my career by associating with films which were mediocre because I needed money at that time.
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
In the apocalypse, I think those average, mediocre folks are the ones who are going to live.
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
The manager sets a tone for that work group. The average-to-mediocre manager can set a very destructive tone, too.
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
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.
I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.
I want to talk about my very first play, when I was in eighth grade. One day, my English teacher, Mrs. Baker, announced that we were going to read 'On Borrowed Time' out loud in class. I was a mediocre student; I was terrified that she was going to call on me, so I hid my head.
I have definitely learnt in business that when you have a smart, engaged entrepreneur with good judgement they can really drive even a mediocre business forward so to me the entrepreneur is very important.
You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.
I think a lot of bands would rather put mediocre rock tracks on their album to try to maintain some sort of testosterone badge of courage.
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.
Poland is quite a mediocre country in some regards. The only natural resource that we have, and with which we can compete, is freedom.
I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.
There aren't enough people who are passionate with what they do. They're content just going through life being mediocre, being average. They don't want to thrive. They don't want to strive for greater. They're happy being where they are.
I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
