There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a
tenth-rate executive.
View quotes by B C ForbesAlways be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
View quotes by Judy GarlandThe world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
View quotes by Stan BarstowWhat's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
View quotes by Doris LessingThe word 'conservative' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.
View quotes by Norman TebbitNo work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.
View quotes by Gerald FinziShould all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves (The Winter's Tale Act 1, Scene 2)
View quotes by William ShakespeareThis Submerged Tenth - is it, then, beyond the reach of the nine-tenths in the midst of whom they live? [In Darkest England]
View quotes by General William BoothOne-tenth of the participants produce over one-third of the output. Increasing the number of participants merely reduces the average output.
View quotes by Norman AugustineThe principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
View quotes by Jeremy BenthamNot a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers
View quotes by William FeatherThere is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi
View quotes by Luis Walter AlvarezGenius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
View quotes by Owen MeredithThe test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
View quotes by F Scott Fitzgerald'The problem, with the Conservative Party is that they are actually going backwards. They have now skipped a generation. At this rate the next leader will have to be exhumed' - after Michael Howard was made leader
View quotes by Rory BremnerAll of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
View quotes by William FaulknerYou live and learn. At any rate, you live.
View quotes by Douglas AdamsThere are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
View quotes by Jean De La BruyereSleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
View quotes by Arthur SchopenhauerMen do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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