Buck 65 (Richard Terfry) Quotes

Up off your knees now and shatter the average.

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• My biggest fear in life is to be average.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Average

• 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

• A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap!

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Football
  • Dangerous
  • Retirement

• I don't like this," he said. I don't like knowing you can't forgive me, Claire. Please, I said I was sorry, what do you want me to do? Beg?I will. I'll get on my knees right here if you want.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Sorry
  • Forgiveness
  • Knees

• 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

• I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • 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

• A golf ball is white, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and is the size of small mandarin oranges or those huge pills which vets blow down the throats of constipated cart-horses.

  

  Frank Muir
  • Golf
  • White
  • Ball

• 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

• Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Knees
  • Jerk

• 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

• The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Men
  • Hero
  • Average

• Stress will either drive you crazy or drive you to your knees. It depends on who is in control of your life.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Life
  • Stress
  • Knees

• The average woman is a size 14 but 'plus' models start at a size six. The industry wants you to feel bad about yourself, and they succeed. I find it to be disgusting.

  

  Whitney Thompson
  • Yourself
  • Succeed
  • Industry

• Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be more successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

  

  Chalene Johnson
  • People
  • Should
  • Successful

• No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantages to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the next few decades.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Technology
  • Environment

• 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

• Up off your knees now and shatter the average.

  

  Buck 65
  • Average
  • Knees
  • Shatter