21 Second-Rate Quotes for You to Enjoy

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland

Wisdom Yourself Somebody Second-Rate Else Instead Always First-Rate Version

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. A. A. Milne

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First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people. Leo Rosten

Business People Second-Rate First-Rate Hire

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Jean de la Bruyere

Mind Second-Rate Mark Telling Always Stories

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. Andre Weil

People First Second-Rate Rate First-Rate Mathematicians Choose Second Third

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work. Gerald Finzi

Work You World Second-Rate Say Rate Room Second

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate. Gerald Finzi

Work Mind First Second-Rate Rate No Work First-Rate Really Ever Second

I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush. Jack Germond

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I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic. John Boyne

Hope Time Myself Memory Book Passion Become Every Think Lasting Second-Rate Hundreds Find See Classic Seem Only Could Merely Disappointed Feel Look Occasionally Read Does Which Again Titles Much Across Appear Novel Mediocre

If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in fact, the most banal and naive cliches dug out of second-rate movements of the late 19th century. John Ralston Saul

Great Democracy You Live Second-Rate Late Out High Fact Abstract Naive Most Cliches Always Dug Surrounded Banal Very Movements In Fact Tiring Which Century

In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna spent their early seasons in second-rate machinery, Hamilton walked into the equal best car on the grid. His first season none the less has, by any standards, been extraordinary. Martin Jacques

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I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song. Paul McCartney

Love Generation Song Think Second-Rate Meet Say Kids Would Wings Beatle Stuff Began Younger Really Used Who

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'. Sarah Waters

Thought Second-Rate Rather Knew Academic Well Always Even Novelist

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist. Wayne Kramer

Great Class Better Pride Guitarist Second-Rate Took System Solos Guy Great Pride He His Role Where Rhythm Play Technique

I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby. Living in the Bronx or Brooklyn was incredible... for me, that was like a foreign country. William Klein

Me Country Living Second-Rate Incredible Bronx Brooklyn Civilization Like Sticks Foreign Foreign Country Were Up Friends Snobby Manhattan Grew

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