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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
Teacher
Good
Great
Good Teacher
Superior
Tells
Inspires
Great Teacher
Explains
Mediocre
Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Leadership
People
Doing The Right Thing
Right Thing
About
Vast
Doing
Going
The Right Thing
Against
Even
Right
Thing
Number
Mediocre
Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people.
Nick Saban
People
High
Like
Achievers
Mediocre
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Education
Cooking
Public Education
Will
States
Bad
Kitchens
Always
Same
Public
Reason
Large
Mediocre
Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren Buffett
Time
Wonderful
Enemy
Friend
Company
Mediocre
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great
Relationship
Fans
Wind
Increases
Diminishes
Great Ones
Absence
Fires
Passions
Candles
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.
David Morse
Teacher
Time
Day
Me
Class
First
Hid
One Day
Out
Borrowed
About
Student
Head
Announced
Baker
Talk
She
Call
Read
Terrified
Were
Loud
Very
Grade
Going
Want
Eighth
Eighth Grade
English
English Teacher
Play
Mediocre
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
Work
Hard Work
Best
Perseverance
Become
Dedication
Believe
No-One
Truly
Wants
Hard
Mediocre
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash
Positive
Great
Will
Enthusiasm
Further
Great Idea
Inspires
No-One
Idea
Go
Than
Mediocre
Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Understanding
Own
Minds
Beyond
Anything
Which
Dismiss
Mediocre
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.
Diane Keaton
Best
Great
Me
Man
Writing
Great Man
Directing
Without
Movie
Realised
Movie Star
Star
Mediocre
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. Somerset Maugham
Best
Only
Always
His
Person
Mediocre
For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.
John Ortberg
Faith
Great
Will
Become
Living
Settle
Our
Danger
Our Lives
Distracted
Rushed
Instead
Most
Renounce
Version
Just
Them
Us
Preoccupied
Lives
Actually
Mediocre
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Joseph Heller
People
Achieve
Some People
Mediocrity
Some
Born
Thrust
Them
Mediocre
I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
Madeleine Albright
Work
Women
World
Men
Enough
Seems
Said
Very
Times
Room
Really
Hard
Many
Mediocre
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
Faith
Great
Yourself
People
Some People
Superior
Drive
Difficult
Further
Some
Vastly
Talent
Go
Than
Getting
Much
Requires
Avid
Profession
Why
Inner
Mediocre
The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
Comte de Lautreamont
Great
Family
Men
Worthy
Logic
Most
Utopia
Universal
Mediocre
Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.
Edward Burtynsky
Photography
People
Digital
Made
Medium
Easy
Photoshop
Through
Take
Stuff
Pictures
Lot
Very
Get
Mediocre
I don't think anybody's goal is to be mediocre. I think everybody should want to be the best. I've always felt that way. I want to be at the best at everything I do.
Justin Verlander
Best
Think
Everybody
Everything
Way
Felt
Always
Goal
Anybody
Want
Should
Mediocre
Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
Margaret Mead
Women
Men
Possible
Want
Working
Mediocre
Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
Orson Welles
Directing
Perfect
Refuge
Movie
Mediocre
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.
Simone de Beauvoir
Women
Feels
Most
Himself
Males
Compared
Mediocre
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
George Allen, Sr.
Success
People
Sometimes
Achieve
Men
Ability
Determined
Outstanding
Know
Most
Because
Quit
Succeed
Mediocre
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
You
Overcome
Extraordinary
Must
Leads
Regular
Notion
Chance
Mediocre
God doesn't do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it's not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.
Joyce Meyer
God
Enough
Out
All-Out
Something
He
Halfway
Does
Goes
Just
Barely
Lukewarm
Things
Mediocre
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
Good
You
Will
Own
Musician
Something
Allow
Never
Demands
Score
Your
Film
Good Film
Conscience
Mediocre
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