Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Ayn Rand

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

Brandon Lee

For what level of mediocrity will you settle?

Courtney Love

I have a deathly fear of mediocrity and that nips at my heels and gets me into a lot of trouble.

Claude Monet

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

David Foster Wallace

Mediocrity is contextual.

Debbi Fields

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

Andy Stanley

Will I allow my fear to bind me to mediocrity?

Amelia Barr

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Jaromir Jagr

It is awfully exhausting and devastating. This is sport and sometimes it simply does not work.

Mark O'Donnell

Theater is exciting because it is collaborative, but it is also exhausting for the same reason.

Kobe Bryant

That's unthinkable. It's pretty exhausting to think about.

Charlie Hunnam

I think we all kind of thought those would be the most fun, the fight scenes. And they were the most challenging. Physically exhausting and complicated and kind of very specific and intricate, so they just took a long time to film. I think that we all thought that we'd get to set, have a punch up and we'd get it on film and be wrapped, but it wasn't quite like that.

John Fairchild

I find it an exhausting experience, personally, to go to a party every night.

Miriam Toews

I have a problem with beginnings... and endings... and middles. But I don't know what else I would do. I find it very, very difficult to write. It takes everything; it's physically and mentally and emotionally exhausting for me. And my neighbours. And my dog.

Nastassia Alcius

When they make runs and you don't make a run, then they make another run; by the time you make your run, it's kind of exhausting to get back in the game.

Kerry Condon

I'm not panicking any more or worrying about the next job. It was exhausting and making me very unhappy, and I was missing out on life.

Ishmael Beah

It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.