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There are a lot worse things you can do with all your bucks than giving them to even a mediocre mutual fund - such as, for example, giving them to a mediocre hedge fund. If supporting the lifestyle of a mediocre fund manager is your favorite charity, who am I to stop you?

We've got to find a way to get on a winning streak. This team is not a mediocre team, but so far we've been mediocre. We can't be satisfied with that.

We watched a lot of film, just trying to get answers and trying to figure out what causes us to play that way. We were definitely embarrassed by a mediocre team. We don't want to be a team that's great one night and terrible the next night. We have to do whatever it takes to be a consistent team.

The recent trend in California's employment statistics has been a move from mediocre to downright ugly. After a brief spurt in July and August, employment growth has slowed to a crawl.

With scandal-ridden capital markets, a mediocre recovery and still high valuations, a lengthy bottoming and healing period is needed before we get a substantial upturn in equities.

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

We were optimistic going in, but it's very difficult as a Division 4 team. We don't have the luxury of playing mediocre teams. Each game we play, we have to come out with our best stuff. But I think we played them hard and at times played well.

Even though we have a mediocre record, you don't have to be a mediocre player. It's all dependent on how hard you're willing to work to win and how much you want to put into it. You may not always win, but you can certainly put forth great effort and play with passion and discipline.

The results are mediocre at best. Given the amount of corporate supply coming and the refunding announcement around the corner, it's not a good sign.

There's not any phase of the game Mark wants to be mediocre in, ... He could be a guy who will steal you 10 or 15 bases a year.

I've seen U2 several times in concert. I couldn't tell you who my favorite band is right now; there's a lot of mediocre music out there these days.

I've said it before. This team is going to go how the hitting goes. It's too much pressure for these guys to throw shutouts every game. We need to be consistent, especially against a mediocre pitcher.

I've read a hundred fantastic scripts that didn't pan out as films, and I completely put that on the directors. I've also read some mediocre scripts that have ended up being amazing, and I credit that to the directors. They're the storytellers. If you don't have a good storyteller, you really have nothing.

The talent is so close in the NFL that you're standing on the razor's edge of being an elite team and being a mediocre team, ... The Colts are one injury to Peyton Manning from being a .500 football team. Every team in the NFL is like that.

Telstra believes it can be everything to everybody and therefore it isn't doing anything properly. If you put such a lot on your plate the best become mediocre in everything you do but you can't be a specialist.

Prospects for services are mediocre and the sector will struggle to regain dynamism.

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Deanna was mediocre when she started. But she decided after her freshman season that she was going to work her tail off at becoming the best pitcher she could be.

Companies that have disappeared through going out of business or bankruptcy or gobbled up by others, most of them haven't had a reason for being. They are mediocre stores. And when the market gets 'over-stored' companies that have no reason for being will go away.

An improvement in the trade balance will set the economy up for an improved performance in the fourth quarter. Mediocre consumer spending, the drag from net exports and declining housing construction have taken their toll on growth in the third quarter.

That's just one of the ways the restaurant wants customers to feel important. Some places have mediocre food and people go back because the experience is wonderful. We think we have fantastic food and we have a great experience, too.

This has always been a course I thought I should play well on every time I have played here and I have nothing, nothing but mediocre and bad scores to get me through this week. And now I've got one real good round that is going to give me some momentum at least starting into tomorrow.

A lot of people around here are playing mediocre teams and not really getting a challenge. Like we played Conley the other day, and it was a 1-0 ballgame until the last two innings. We've seen a lot of good pitching that we normally don't see in the preseason.

Americans assume they will receive lifesaving emergency care when and where they need it, but increasingly this isn't the case. Our report found the nation's support for emergency medical care is mediocre or worse. Most Americans would not accept mediocre treatment or mediocre medicines; they also should not accept mediocre support of an emergency medical system that they expect to be of the highest quality when their lives hang in the balance. In a nation that has prided itself on providing the highest-quality medical care in the world, anything less than an A is unacceptable.

They may be afraid that if we make a mediocre record that it will still come out, because the money has been spent. That's fair enough.

The younger male audience, if you ask 10 of them if they'd rather go to the movies or play a video game, a lot of them are going to say they'd rather play a video game. Hollywood cannot release mediocre movies and expect people to line up in record numbers when consumers have so many options for their entertainment.

This kid is unique. If he was just a running back who had mediocre hands, then he wouldn't be the No. 1 pick. He's the No. 1 pick because he's a superlative runner.

They're only mediocre if you're a securities analyst, not if you're a real person, ... The successful retailers are opening stores like mad. That may steal sales from existing stores of their own as well as other retailers. But the overall pie is growing. I'm an economist; I focus on the pie, I don't care how they slice it.

They have nothing to celebrate. Revenues were just 'blah' all around. Very mediocre in all segments.

Absence weakens mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and kindles fires.

It's a typical, mediocre Christmas season. But we've gone through the last years with no hot new toy and no hot apparel look. There's no reason to shop early.

It was a strong day for technology and small stocks. But most major stocks were mediocre performers.

It is unfortunate that Idaho has been down for the last 4-5 years. It happens. It's cyclical. Note the glorious Huskies. It's bad enough to have your team lose without having them kicked while they're down with an illogically-written column by a mediocre sportswriter with a chip on his shoulder stuck in Everett. Get a life.

It's really hard to be responsible for four teams. And it is four teams when you add the junior varsity. It takes away from your concentration, and you end up doing a mediocre job with all four teams.

It's our Super Bowl. Love it, love it. It's one thing if you're playing a couple mediocre teams, but when these big games come around, you definitely got to get up for them. You got Vitale in the building. It don't get no bigger than that.

Don't buy mediocre things to fill up your house. Buy a few good pieces, and in the long run you're going to save money.

It used to be a series where a young kid with a mediocre team could come in and run 20th and gain a ton of experience and knowledge. Now there are 25 Cup guys out there, and these young guys can't get in the race.

A pitcher is like a goalie in hockey. If you have a good goalie, you can have a mediocre team around them and they can pick you up.

I'm not particularly happy with the way we're playing. We had five runs on 11 hits, but we left 12 on base. We have been in cruise control since Western Illinois. We are fortunate to be 6-2 over that stretch. I told our guys we're playing very mediocre baseball. It's going to catch up to us. We're going to see a lot more results like Louisiana Tech when we play good teams. We get a lead early then go into cruise control. We didn't get to 19-8 by going through the motions.

In December 1989, my mother died very suddenly, and that sparked a re-evaluation of what I was doing, and I realized I was mediocre at everything. I was a mediocre IBM employee, I was a mediocre entrepreneur, I was a mediocre artist. I decided that, although my mom wouldn't be around to see it, I wanted to be great at something.

I'm really proud of 'Cars.' 'Cars,' when it first came out, got probably the most mediocre reviews of a Pixar film.

I'm not the smartest guy you've ever met, or the hardest-working. I was a mediocre student. I'm not technical at all - I can't write a word of code. What sets me apart, I think, is a tolerance for risk and an intuition about what will happen in the future. Seeing where things are headed is the essence of entrepreneurship.

If somebody told me we would beat those teams ahead of time, I would be pretty positive about it but everyone else in South Fayette would say I was crazy. Last year, we were a mediocre team. This year, we're playing real hard and I knew we could surprise a lot of people.

Insurance stocks are way up -- Protective Life ( PL : Research , Estimates ) not so much. It's had kind of a mediocre year in a stock performance. And I think that is one of the better values left. Among other things they are strong in prepaid dental insurance.

In the seventh and eighth grade, I kind of narrowed it down. I wanted to be pretty good at one, rather than mediocre at all of them.

I hit five or six bad shots, a bunch of mediocre shots and a few good shots.

If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.

In 2005, we thought it was the lingering effects of the recession. But retail is going to be more mediocre and in some cases poor in 2006 because of a deeper, structural problem that is based on Michigan 's auto economy.

High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

[A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

It was only the vulgarly mediocre that repelled her.

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.

I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.

High achievers don't like mediocre people, mediocre people don't like high achievers.

Mediocre people hate high achievers, and high achievers hate mediocre people.

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

One of the great things with comedy is that there's no such thing as a mediocre comedy; it's either uproarious or crap. That's the problem.

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for.

Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

If we remove desire to be better, we become mediocre.

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

I don't like being mediocre. I won't be.

Naked and pure is the spirit that transcends the existence mediocre.

The essence of business to me is great people run great companies. Mediocre people don't do a very good job.

A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.

You've got a recession in the auto and computer industries, you've got inventories piling up, you've got mediocre consumer spending, you've got a terrible stock market. I think the time to cut rates is now and I think they are in a good position to do it. If the Fed shows tomorrow that they realize this economy needs stimulus, I think it would be a wonderful gift for the stock market.

The forecast for California is mediocre at best; at worst we are liable to dip into another recession, ... at least 50% if not more.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

A high church for the true mediocre.

All these accomplishments wouldn't be as great if we were just a mediocre team right now.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

For instance, The Sixth Sense had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

Only mediocre ideas can be tested.

He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me.

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.

Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

Preserve your energy - do not waste it on mediocre activity.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself...

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.

'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'.

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

It's more than magnificent - it's mediocre.

Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible