Average Quotes
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My acting was only average. I wasn't dedicated. Starting as a tot and working for twenty years was long enough, so I quit. The fan mail still arrives . . . why, I don't know.
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The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.
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Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.
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Properly measured, the average actively managed dollar must underperform the average passively managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses that appear to refute this principle are guilty of improper measurement.
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Most teams have one All-Star, whether that guy made it this year or earlier in his career, and some teams have two All-Stars. What theyre showing is that a group of five guys that play together and play hard will always beat a team with two All-Stars and three average players.
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Half the world is below average and it's not going to get any better.
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Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.
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The average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.
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I love a glass of champagne. It can make even the most average Monday seem like a Saturday night. I always say there's happiness in every bubble!
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I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there's some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let's say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.
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Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.
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If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.
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In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point.
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People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something.
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I want to be more consistent. I wanna get hits. I wanna get my average back up where people think I can hit.
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So that's why I said, if you look at the average, you would see the money New York got this year was in line with the average across the prior three years and substantially more, by a country mile, than the money given to any other city.
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The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
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If there were no limitations or consequences, what would your perfect average day look like?
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Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.
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Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.
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I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
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It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
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During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.
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Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
