Second Rate Quotes - Page 1

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland / Actress
Graduation
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
Positive
Wisdom
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Yourself
Always
Somebody
Version
Else
First-Rate
Instead
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Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.
Bruce Oldfield / Fashion Designer
Accepting
Corners
Cutting
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One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
Jean De La Bruyere /
Mark
Mind
Second Chance
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Stories
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Abraham Maslow / Psychologist
Food
Creative
Creativity
Painting
Second Rate
Soup
First-Rate
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
Natalia Ginzburg / Author
Ill
Materials
Second Rate
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I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
Richard Strauss / Composer
Inspiring
Music
Composer
Second Chance
Second Rate
First-Rate
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First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
Leo Rosten / Teacher
Business
Firsts
People
Second Rate
First-Rate
Hire
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In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.
Andrew Ross Sorkin / Journalist
Bitcoin
Gold
Second Rate
Version
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I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. / Actor
Carbon
Emulate
Father
Second Rate
Trying
Would Be
Copy
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As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
Margaret Atwood / Poet
Art
Loyalty
Cases
Firsts
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Being a rather second-rate actress, I finally thought, 'I'd rather be a designer.' I knew I could make things look good.
Anouska Hempel /
Designer
Second Rate
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When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'
David Morrell / Novelist
Second Rate
Version
First-Rate
Mantra
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I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris
Lucy Maud Montgomery / Author
Goods
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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 / Novelist
Academic
Second Rate
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If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.
Harry Kroto / Chemist
Effort
Second Rate
Best Your Will
Personally
Satisfies
Something Else
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It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.
Martin Rees / Astronomer
Science Fiction
Second Rate
Stimulating
First-Rate
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Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
Yotam Ottolenghi / Chef
Heavy
Layers
Second Rate
Avoid
Burn
Cook
Leaves
Lined
Pan
Stuffed
Vine
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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 / Musician
Kids
Second Rate
Song
Thinking
Wings
Younger
Beatle
Began
Generation
Meet
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Men
Class
Noisy
Second Chance
Second Rate
States
Texas
Absolutely
Extreme
Less
Favor
Invested
Measures
More Or Less
Overrun
Rash
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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.
Doris Lessing / Novelist
Inspirational
Love
Capable
Firsts
Needs
Second Rate
Terrible
Love Work Your
Love Work Better
Pretend
First-Rate
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There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.
G. H. Hardy / Mathematician
Appreciation
Criticism
Profound
Scorn
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Explain
Exposition
Minds
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If you go to a second-rate place, and you are first-rate, it is very difficult to do first-rate work because you do not get that critical feedback you need for first-rate work on a daily basis.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan /
Critical
Feedback
Second Rate
Basis
Daily Basis
First-Rate
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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 /
Guitarist
Pride
Rhythm
Second Rate
Technique
Great Pride
Solos
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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 / Author
Happiness
Happy
Intelligence
Integrity
Majority
Mind
Second Rate
Thinking
First-Rate
Minority
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Look, I do not control alpinism. But maybe I was too successful. Many in the mountaineering scene - journalists, second-rate climbers, lecturers, so-called historians - had a problem with me for many years.
Reinhold Messner / Mountaineer
Mountaineering
Problem
Scene
Second Rate
Successful
Climber
Historians
Journalists
Maybe
So-Called
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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 / Author
Abstract
Democracy
Late
Naive
Second Rate
Banal
Cliches
High
Dug
Fact
In Fact
Movements
Surrounded
Tiring
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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 / Photographer
Bronx
Manhattan
Second Rate
Snobby
Sticks
Me Country Living
Foreign Country
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Men continue to misinterpret the second-rate status of women as implying a privileged status for themselves; heterosexuals think the same way about homosexuals; gentiles about Jews; whites about blacks; haves about have-nots.
Lorraine Hansberry / Playwright
Gentiles
Implying
Privileged
Second Rate
Men Women Way
Blacks
Women Men Way
Homosexuals
Jews
Status
Themselves
Whites
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Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.
Marjane Satrapi / Novelist
Able
Graphic
Graphic Novels
Literature
Mean
Second Rate
Seems
Shame
Talent
Thinking
Traditional
Writing
Does
Both
Write
Choose
Draw
Images
Novels
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Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.
Charles M. Schwab /
Proverbial
Second Rate
Drawings
Mechanical
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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 / Journalist
Quality
Candidates
Gore
Granddaughter
Second Rate
Spending
Al
Al Gore
Bush
Campaign
Explain
George
George W
George W. Bush
Odious
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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 / Novelist
Book
Classic
Disappointed
Lasting
Mediocre
Memories
Passion
Second Rate
Titles
Time Hope Myself
Appear
Hope Time Myself
Hundreds
Memory
Merely
Occasionally
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There are so many voices on YouTube, and there are incredible creators that are popular for a reason. And although it's great to be inspired by them, nobody is going to subscribe to a second-rate version of them. It's really important to put your best foot forward and be your best self because you will always be the number one version of you.
Tyler Oakley / Advocate
Second Rate
Youtube
Best Great Always
Version
Creators
Foot
Subscribe
Voices
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