Eric Thomas Quotes

I don't ever want you to settle for another average day in your life.

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• On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Year
  • Priority
  • Average

• Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Relationship
  • Yourself
  • Settle

• There are no prizes for average performance.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Average
  • Performances
  • Prize

• That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • Why
  • History
  • Question

• The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit - it's bespoke all the way.

  

  L. Todd Rose
  • Age
  • Small
  • Wedding

• For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share markets rising solidly in each of the past three years. This has been underpinned by strong growth in profits so that, notwithstanding the rise in share prices, P/E ratios have been declining on average.

  

  Ian Macfarlane
  • Past
  • Strong
  • Growth

• If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Persons
  • Average
  • Pretentious

• Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Disease
  • Average
  • Software

• Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Boy
  • Silent
  • Average

• I don't see any pressure on them to settle in the near term.

  

  Tony Butler Big Country
  • Pressure
  • Settle
  • Near

• The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there.

  

  Sean Covey
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Kind

• If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Organization
  • Average
  • Budget

• Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to feel like they were sitting around the dinner table with me and my friends, hearing what average people really say and really think, where the dinner table is the best place to find out.

  

  Annia Ciezadlo
  • People
  • Everyday
  • Dinner

• Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle.

  

  Ziad Abdelnour
  • Settle
  • Backbone
  • Go After

• I want to be more consistent. I wanna get hits. I wanna get my average back up where people think I can hit.

  

  Andruw Jones
  • Average
  • Consistent
  • Hits

• If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

  

  Shawn Achor
  • Study
  • Inspiration
  • motivation

• Using facts to settle disputes. How bold of you.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Facts
  • Settle
  • Disputes

• The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

  

  Ivor Novello
  • Spirit
  • Entertainment
  • Average

• Re-tweeting is a pretty common practice on Twitter, but on an average day, we see maybe one out of 20 posts is a re-tweet.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • Practice
  • Common
  • Average

• I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Death

• I sang barber shop harmony and sort of got into performing. And it just came naturally. Then, when I was in college after the war, I did a play, Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw. And from then on, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • War
  • College
  • Pygmalion

• Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.

  

  Sophocles
  • Raise
  • Brief
  • Laid

• I don't ever want you to settle for another average day in your life.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Average
  • Settle