Average Quotes
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No man can avoid being born average, but no man has to stay average.
Satchel Paige -
And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in twenty viewers actually had a bad reaction. And it was mostly kids who were affected. I mean younger than you guys. I think the average age was about ten.' That made me feel somewhat better. But that was a kid's show,' said Jen. 'Maybe it affects everyone, but not that many adults were watching.' That made me feel less better. I wanted my protective bangs back.
Scott Westerfeld
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You ain't average! But you know what? You're playing small because it's easier to be average.
Eric Thomas -
So don't be average. Don't be good. Don't be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten.
Eric Thomas -
If there were no limitations or consequences, what would your perfect average day look like?
Bob Proctor -
When you're great! You attract great! When you're average! You attract average!
Eric Thomas -
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 -
'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S.Q.!' And poor S.Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart
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Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.
Seth Godin -
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.
William Forsyth Sharpe -
I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.
Helen Gurley Brown -
Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life
Garrison Wynn -
If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.
Simon Sinek -
I'm an average American. As I joke, I'm the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in the world.
Eric Garcetti
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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.
Walter Dill Scott -
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.
Michael Chertoff -
I'm just a little bit sicker then the average individual I think.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work they undertake, succeed, and, in the average of cases, are advanced in proportion to their efficiency; while the incompetent, society soon finds out, ceases to employ, forces to try something easier, and eventually turns to use.
Herbert Spencer -
The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.
Seth MacFarlane -
Average companies give their people something to work on. The most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.
Simon Sinek
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That's definitely my goal for next year, to average a double-double. I know if I can go out there and get a double-double every game, more than likely we're going to win. That's what I'm going to try to do.
Eddy Curry -
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Richard Feynman -
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer -
There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.
Gertrude Atherton