First rate Quotes

“First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.”

“Creativity is just an attraction to the second rate minds but simplification to the first rate minds.”

“A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.”

“A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.”

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”

“When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods.”

“At Childerstown High School and at college he had never led his class nor taken prizes; but, without being aware that he did, he really blamed this on his failure to work hard, or any harder than he needed to. . . . What he did not know, what Paul Bonbright, among others, showed him, was that those abilities of his that got him, without distinction but also without much exertion, through all previous lessons and examinations, were not first rate abilities handicapped by laziness, but second rate, by no degree of effort or assiduity to be made the equal of abilities like Bonbright's.”