Average Quotes
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Sometimes you can have the quarterback and no system. Sometimes, you can have a system with an average quarterback and do well.
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The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into his presence something that will suggest a new line of thinking and feeling. The master mind, however, can change his thought whenever he so desires. A change of scene is not necessary, because such a mind is not controlled from without. A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.
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I feel like if I cut down on my strikeouts, it would help my average. But I don't want to be too patient. I just keep the same approach as always.
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Academics are, on average, pussies.
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I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold it out. Of all the speculative blunders there are few greater than trying to average a losing game. Always sell what shows you a loss and keep what shows you a profit.
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Up off your knees now and shatter the average.
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Maybe I was little bit more aggressive than the average kid.
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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
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By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.
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For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.
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Normal is the average of deviance.
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Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.
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The public, as a whole, buys at the wrong time and sells at the wrong time. The average operator, when he sees two or three points profit, takes it; but, if a stock goes against him two or three points, he holds on waiting for the price to recover, with oftentimes, the result of seeing a loss of two or three points run into a loss of ten points.
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It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of.
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There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.
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Half of the people in the world are below average.
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The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.
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I'm an average citizen and always have been.
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A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person who has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule.
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Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.
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On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.
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We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.
