Average Quotes
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There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.
Hal Higdon
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Half of the people in the world are below average.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
Hal Elrod
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There's a good television programme called 'Disco 2.' It's quite good but again it's average, average. It's all on a down play. You know we've got this thing in England to be hip is to speak very down - like John Peel. And that just about sums up England. They don't realize when they talk like that, then that is what they represent - absolutely.
David Bowie
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If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
Salvador Dali
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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
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Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.
Buddy Rich
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The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.
Ivor Novello
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Academics are, on average, pussies.
David Buss
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We listen to the greats. I'm not going to listen to average rap when I can listen to an Outkast album.
Eyedea
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My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was it?' They say, '0.7.' I said, 'What's normal?' They say, '0.6.'; I said, 'One-tenth? You're telling me I'm one-tenth higher than the average man? Re-test that - you must have caught me on a low day.'
Chael Sonnen
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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.
Ray Bradbury
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On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.
Morgan Saylor
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The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
H. L. Mencken
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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.
Charles Dow
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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.
Marian Wright Edelman
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Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.
Sander Levin
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The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.
Stephen Gaghan
