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second rate

«The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.»
«No matter how thoroughly and searchingly we may have scrutinized works of literature from the historical and biographical point of view, we must be able to tell good from bad, the first-rate from the second-rate. We shall otherwise not write literary criticism at all, but merely social or political history as reflected in literary texts, or psychological case histories from past eras.»
«Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else»
«Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.»
«The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.»
«A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting»
«A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.»
«A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate thoughts, and to second-rate friends»
«Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.»
«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.»