One has to set high standards… I can never be happy with mediocre performance.
Teachers who stand in front of a class giving instruction for up to 12 hours a day have been credited with putting Chinese schools at the top of international ratings in maths, sciences and literacy, in which the record of UK schools is mediocre.
Well, 90% is not so bad and you think that your friends' cooking is pretty mediocre anyway.
The civil servants system, with its inherent bureaucracy and rigid rules, would inevitably turn the otherwise energetic and aggressive young people into docile followers of their superiors' instructions and dutiful but mediocre implementers of executive orders.
Never refusing anyone who came to hime,he let the talented people do what they could and also offered food and lodging to the mediocre.
One has to set high standards… I can never be happy with mediocre performance.
If he's a good person – loyal, happy, unselfish, willing to change – then know that he's a diamond amidst a host of "cool" guys with mediocre hearts.
One has to set high standards… I can never be happy with mediocre performance.
That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conservative, Boston, Massachusetts, December 9, 1841 He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery.
There were no email addresses or transferable phone number and directory lookup services were mediocre at best.
That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Mediocre day?
