A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne

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.

Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Agnes de Mille
Agnes de Mille

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

Andre Weil
Andre Weil

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

Andrew Ross Sorkin
Andrew Ross Sorkin

In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.

Anouska Hempel
Anouska Hempel

Being a rather second-rate actress, I finally thought, 'I'd rather be a designer.' I knew I could make things look good.

Bob Brown
Bob Brown

Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'

Bruce Oldfield
Bruce Oldfield

Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

Charles M. Schwab
Charles M. Schwab

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.

Derek Bailey
Derek Bailey

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.