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 the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Christian
  • Devil
  • Average

• Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Progress
  • Race

• 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

• Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

  

  Paul J. Meyer
  • Effort
  • Progress
  • Excellence

• 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

• Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes out on St. Patrick's Day has no idea of the sort of economic powerhouse Ireland has become.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • Ideas
  • Blood
  • Economic

• 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

• I feel like it's not a bad average for every album I've got in the United States to be nominated for something off the album.

  

  Estelle
  • United States
  • Album
  • Average

• Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature - one whose morphe (form) is theos - God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them.

  

  Huston Smith
  • God
  • Reason
  • Religion

• As the applicant pool grows, the exact place to draw the line between looking and leaping settles to 37% of the pool, yielding the 37% Rule: look at the first 37% of the applicants, choosing none, then be ready to leap for anyone better than all those you’ve seen so far.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Rule
  • Applicant

• The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

  

  Montgomery Clift
  • Existence
  • Sadness
  • Vulnerable

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

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Average
  • Settle