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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
View quotes by B C Forbes
No work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.
View quotes by Gerald Finzi
What'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 Lessing
The 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 Tebbit
Not 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 Feather
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
View quotes by Stan Barstow
This 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 Booth
Should 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 Shakespeare
The 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 Bentham
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
View quotes by Judy Garland
One-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 Augustine
There 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 Alvarez
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
View quotes by C S Lewis
Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)
View quotes by Owen Meredith
The world is going mad at an alarming rate and television is the Typhoid Mary.
View quotes by Edward Robb Ellis
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
View quotes by Cyril Connolly
All 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 Faulkner
The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible.
View quotes by Shannon Miller
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
View quotes by Mary McCarthy
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
View quotes by H G Wells
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