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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

- A. E. Housman

topic: Men, Average, Criticism

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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

- A. Whitney Brown

topic: Funny, School, Average, High School Students

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If you can predict the rate at which you create (or create and grow) qualified pipeline, and you know your average close rate(s), then you can start predicting your revenue.

topic: Average, Insightful, Pipeline

the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.

- Abigail McCarthy

topic: Average, Apathy, Citizens, Inattention

Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."

- Abraham Maslow

topic: Motivation, Self, Average, Self Awareness

What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

- Abraham Maslow

topic: Average, Psychology, Normal, Psychopathology

We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.

- Abraham Verghese

topic: Average, Physicians, Patient

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

topic: Average, Delusional

The average man. The emergence of the concept.

- Adolphe Quetelet

topic: Men, Average

The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Christian, Blessed, Average

I'm just an average woman with average concerns.

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

topic: Average, Concern

It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.

topic: Team, Men, Average

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

- Alan Greenspan

topic: Average, Musician, Band

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

topic: Average, Space, Realizing

That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.

topic: Football, Average, Games

In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.

topic: Average, Facts, Normal

It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mcÂ², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Squares, Light, Average

It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. It does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of the present, to ask what sort of institution it was that claimed his allegiance.

- Albert J. Nock

topic: Attitude, Average, Years

A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world -- intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man..

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Character, Men, Average

I was doing all the coaching schools so that I'd be able to stay in the game, and I gave myself a chance by doing that. I was only an average player, could score a goal or two, that sort of thing, but I wasn't a Bobby Charlton or a Messi, or Ronaldo. There are very, very few really great players who have become great coaches.

- Alex Ferguson

topic: School, Player, Average

The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

- Alexander Fraser Tytler

topic: Spiritual, Average, Years, Spiritual Faith

The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

- Alexis Carrel

topic: Science, Technology, Average

I often think of a quote from entrepreneur Jim Rohn: 'You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.' Surround yourself with people who are doing interesting things, who are thinking interesting thoughts, who challenge you to be better, and who come from a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. That, combined with appropriate moments of 'me' time, provides the perfect breeding ground for great ideas. And whatever you do, don't get hung up on what competitors are doing. Be aware of what's going on in the industry, but don't let it dictate your own creative process.

- Alexis Ohanian

topic: Thinking, Average, Ideas

If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you've got left are the sheep.

- Alfred Bester

topic: Men, Sheep, Average, Above Average

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Average, Bottom

So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'

- Allen Ginsberg

topic: Nice, Eight, Average

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average

topic: Average, Safety, Conformity

Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.

- Alvin Plantinga

source: Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.149, Oxford University Press

topic: Thinking, Average, Doubt, Above Average, Moral Fiber

Interruptions: The average worker gets interrupted five times each hour. It takes an average of 5 minutes to handle each interruption and 1 minute to get back to what you were doing. This adds up to 30 minutes each hour or 50% of your time!! You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

- Alvin Toffler

topic: Thinking, Average, Time Management

So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.

topic: Taken, Average, People, Taken Advantage

ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Independent, Men, Average

You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.

topic: Golf, Average, Practice

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

- Anatole France

topic: Life, Men, Average, Greediness, Average Man

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Average, Work Ethic, Energy, Average Person, Average Man

Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence,...

- Andrew Tobias

source: "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

topic: Average, Suffering, Hay, Above Average, Hay Fever

I want to be more consistent. I wanna get hits. I wanna get my average back up where people think I can hit.

topic: Thinking, Average, People

Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped.

source: Andy Adams (2013). “Complete Western Collection”, p.99, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Men, Average, Cities, Handicapped, Bad Man

Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

topic: Average, People, Ordinary People

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.

- Andy Hargreaves

topic: Leadership, Learning, Average

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

source: Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett (2009). “The Andy Warhol Diaries”, p.336, Hachette UK

topic: Average, People, Being Different

Don't settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that's in us.

- Angela Bassett

topic: Average, Needs, Succeed, Maximum Effort, Give 100 Percent

Commit yourself to do something innovative which average people are afraid to do. Aim high and push yourself to achieve every thing you wished.

topic: Average, People, Push Yourself

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Book, Average, Cities, Large Cities

Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.

- Antoine Lavoisier

topic: Average, Evil, Affliction, Average Life

But the average person doesnt have that much imagination. They just want to be entertained. They want to have the tableau presented for them. They dont want to participate beyond a certain point. They want the safety of the herd, to be catered to, sit back and enjoy.

- Anton Szandor LaVey

topic: Average, Safety, Imagination, Average Person, Tableau

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

topic: Average, Comedian, Everyday, Exaggeration Is, Everyday Things

My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

- Armand Hammer

topic: Business, Average, People, Batting

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

topic: School, Average, Two

While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician.

- Arthur Conan Doyle

topic: Men, Numbers, Average, Statistician

To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

topic: Hero, Men, Average, Prostration, Hero Worship

It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

topic: Country, Thinking, Average, American Troops

Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that, at his birth, he might have found room in a quart mug. He died on March the 20th, 1727, after more than eighty-four years of more than average bodily health and vigour; it is a proper pendant to the story of the quart mug to state that he never lost more than one of his second teeth.

- Augustus De Morgan

topic: Average, Years, Might, Isaac, Pendants

Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.

- Austan Goolsbee

source: "Austan Goolsbee Talks Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2010.

topic: Cutting, Average, Years

President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers.

topic: Average, Support, Vision

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

- Ayelet Waldman

topic: Teenager, Average, People, Antipathy

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

topic: Mean, Average, Envy

I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all together and divided by eleven. I then took that average and presented it as the average price for a Manhattan apartment. The media ate it up.

- Barbara Corcoran

topic: Past, Media, Average

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Animal, Vacation, Average

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

- Beatrice Lillie

topic: Self, Average, Common Sense, Average Person

Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.

- Ben Bagdikian

topic: Passion, Average, Ukulele, St Matthew

I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

topic: Uncles, War, Average, Life Span, Family Members

The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing

topic: Golf, Average, Problem, Lack Of Knowledge

We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.

- Ben Silbermann

topic: Thinking, Average, Want, Pinterest

We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

- Ben Silbermann

topic: Average, Trying, Pinterest

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

topic: Average, Years, Numbers, Work Habits

There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.

- Benjamin Carson

source: T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.18, Psychology Press

topic: Average, Brain, Normal

The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance.

- Benjamin Zander

topic: Teaching, Learning, Average

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

source: Bergen Evans (1954). “The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense”, New York : Knopf

topic: Leadership, College, Average, Labor Movement, Financiers

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

- Bernard Berenson

topic: Europe, Average, Succeed

The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

- Bernard Williams

topic: Father, Men, Average, Great Grandfather, Brag

[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the rest in virtue, must tend to sink below the average.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Men, Average, Atheism

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Inspirational, Men, Average, Average Man

Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a clean pillow-case will make a difference... Indeed, if your pillow is six years old--which is apparently about the average age for a pillow--it has been estimated that one-tenth of its weight will be made up of sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites and mite dung.

topic: Home, Thinking, Average

The average Southerner has the speech patterns of someone slipping in and out of consciousness. I can change my shoes and socks faster than most people in Mississippi can speak a sentence.

topic: Average, Shoes, People

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

topic: Baseball, Average, Games

we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else.

topic: Educational, Keys, Average, Maximum Effort, Education And Literacy

Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?

topic: Teacher, Average, Years

My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided to get straight A's. I didn't want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A's once, its easier.

topic: Summer, Thinking, Average

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

topic: Funny, Average, Drug, Funk

In an average moral universal society, good people will try to do the right thing, and psychotic people will do wicked things. But if you want to make good people do wicked things, you need them to be religious.

topic: Religious, Average, People, Wicked Things

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

topic: Science, Average, Law, Law Of Averages, Fugitive

The models that have been constructed agree that when, as has been predicted, the level of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in other greenhouse gases doubles from pre-Industrial Revolution concentrations, the global average temperature will increase, and that the increase will be 1.5 to 4.5 degrees Celsius or 3 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit... In Dallas, for instance, a doubled level of carbon dioxide and other gases like methane, would increase the number of days a year with temperatures above 100 degrees from 19 to 78 each year.

- Bill McKibben

topic: Average, Years, Numbers, Methane

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.

source: "Bill Nighy: 'I am not suddenly the greatest actor in the world'". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2009.

topic: Average, Perception

My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.

- Bill Parcells

topic: Sports, Average, Expectations, Sports Psychology

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

topic: Sports, Winning, Average

A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime.

topic: Impact, Average, Years

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

- Bjorn Lomborg

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Average, World, Global Warming, Developing

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

- Bjorn Ulvaeus

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Religious, Rights, Average

The average person has one Fallopian tube.

topic: Average, Average Person, Persons, Tubes

We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.

topic: Zoos, Average, Ideas, Roadside

Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.

topic: Jobs, Average, Growth, Population Growth

Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.

topic: Average, Giving, Political, Fruitcake

Because we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average person that can do this. Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we'd have done it. That's the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, 'were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?'

topic: Lying, Heart, Average, Hungary, Czechoslovakia

If there were no limitations or consequences, what would your perfect average day look like?

topic: Average, Perfect, Looks

The average player would rather play than watch. Those who don't play can't possibly appreciate the subtleties of the game. Trying to get their attention with golf is like selling Shakespeare in the neighbourhood saloon.

topic: Golf, Player, Average, Neighbourhoods

I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

topic: Sports, Average, Years, Batting

The moment the average golfer attempts to play from long grass or a bunker or from a difficult lie of any kind, he becomes a digger instead of a swinger.

topic: Lying, Golf, Average, Long Grass, Playing Golf

I guess I am handsome - in certain parts of the world. If I was, like, in Mongolia, living on a mountain and in my village, I could be the hottest guy. In L.A., I'm ... average?

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Average, Guy, Mountain, Mongolia

We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.

topic: White, Government, Average, Lackeys

I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity.

- Branch Warren

topic: Bodybuilding, Average, Training, Bodybuilder

The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.

- Branford Marsalis

topic: Play, Average, Giving

The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more impressive - nearly every e-auction delivered cost savings.

topic: Average, Insightful, Auctions, Cost Savings

An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.

topic: Running, Average, Circles

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

topic: Inspirational, Fashion, Average

The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.

topic: Jobs, Opportunity, Average

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

topic: Ambition, Average, Goal

One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Average

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

topic: Self Esteem, Ocean, Average, Unlimited Potential, Average Person

Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.

topic: Average, Excellence, Perception, Excellent Performance

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

- Brooks Robinson

topic: Player, Average, Bats

Why is the 'average man' so far below average?

- Bruce Barnbaum

topic: Men, Average

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

topic: Fear, Real, Average

There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing.

- Bruce McLaren

topic: Average, Racing, Reason

It's very difficult to get your ideas to Hollywood if you're the average Joe or Jane. An agent wouldn't bother with you.

topic: Average, Ideas, Hollywood, Average Joe

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

- Bruce Schneier

topic: Average, Firsts, Answers, Internet Users

There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.

- Buck Martinez

topic: Average, Years, People, Scoreboard

Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

topic: Average, Sound, Band

The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.

source: Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.27, Courier Corporation

topic: Journey, Average, Two, Stretching

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

topic: Horse, Average, Three, Intervals, Miles Apart

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Winning, Player, Average

Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.

- Burt Reynolds

topic: Marriage, Men, Average

Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.

- C. J. Cherryh

source: C. J. Cherryh (1996). “Invader: Book Two of Foreigner”, p.32, Penguin

topic: Average, People, Half

It is now possible to live a "christian life" without doing the things that Jesus commanded us to do. We have hired people to go into all the world, to visit those in prison, to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to care for widows and orphans. The average Christian doesn't have to do it.

topic: Christian, Jesus, Average, Widows And Orphans

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

- Calvin Trillin

topic: Life, Book, Average

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

- Calvin Trillin

topic: Book, Average, Yogurt, Shelf Life

My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

- Cameron Mackintosh

topic: Thinking, Average, Tunes

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

topic: Leadership, Pride, Average, Deep Down, Deceiving Ourselves

If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?

topic: Pain, Average, Pseudoscience

In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Stress, Average, Stories, Sacred Cows

Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they do liberate an individual's judgement and confidence we can be sure that we are in the presence of exceptional ability.

- Carl von Clausewitz

topic: Responsibility, Average, Judgement

If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.

- Catfish Hunter

topic: Cancer, Average, League, Catfish

We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.

topic: Average, America, Political, Five Minutes

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.'

topic: Men, Phones, Average

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

source: Chalene Johnson (2012). “Push (Enhanced Edition): 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!”, p.13, Rodale

topic: Successful, Average, People

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Army, Average, Hatred

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.

source: Charles Dow, Shread, Paul (2009). “Dow Theory Unplugged: Charles Dow's Original Editorials & Their Relevance Today”, p.298, Traders Press

topic: Running, Loss, Average, Operators

When ***** sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by certain types of mankind proving superior to the rest in survival value, so that they contribute a larger proportion to the later generations, and in so doing drag the average qualities of humanity in the same direction.

- Charles Galton Darwin

topic: Race, Average, Humanity

How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?

- Charles Kingsley

topic: School, Average, Long, Inspectors, Head Over Heels

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

- Charles Stanley

topic: Average, Effort, Excellent

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

- Charles Stross

topic: Smart, Intelligent, Average, Memes

Not a day goes by that I don't click on RealClearPolitics at least once, the presidential poll charts, graphs and moving averages are great. If RCP didn't already exist, somebody would have to invent it.

source: "About RealClearPolitics". National Journal, www.realclearpolitics.com.

topic: Moving, Average, Presidential, Graphs

One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit.

- Charlie Huston

topic: Character, Artist, Average

You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Average, Long, Guy

Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters.

- Charlie Norwood

topic: Winning, Average, Organization, Providers

In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false ideas, some of the most absurd ideas a brain can hold. ... but all this give no uneasiness to the average brain. That long-suffering organ has been trained for more thousands of years than history can uncover to hold in unquestioning patience great blocks of irrelevant idiocy and large active lies.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

topic: Block, Lying, Average, Long Suffering, Uneasiness

There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.

- Chester Bennington

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Average, Wish, Encounters

Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

topic: Average, Lasts, Halls

Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.

- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

topic: Average, People, Spices, Wednesday

I'm an average, everyday girl.

- Chloe Grace Moretz

source: "'Kick-Ass' Star Chloe Moretz Is One Of 10 To Watch In 2010". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. January 19, 2010.

topic: Girl, Average, Everyday

People need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Average, People, Laughing, That Guy

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.

- Christian D. Larson

topic: Thinking, Average, Feelings, Average Minds

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

- Christopher Bond

topic: Dream, Average, Generations

The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.

- Christopher Morley

topic: Sleep, Average, Doubt

I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we're about, anyway. Alexander, Alexander, Alexander. But it's about the brotherhood. Shaun's a great player, but we have a lot of weapons around here.

topic: Thinking, Player, Average

I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.

topic: Winning, Average, Training

The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know

- Claude C. Hopkins

topic: Writing, Average, May

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

topic: Average, Law, Definitions

One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

- Clayton Christensen

topic: Average, Years, Physicians, Medicare

I work at home but average 15,000 to 18,000 miles per year on my Honda.

- Cliff Martinez

topic: Home, Average, Years, Honda

I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man's average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time , while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next.

- Clifford D. Simak

source: Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Time and Again”, p.84, Open Road Media

topic: Men, Average, Hands

Average talent, plus hard work and dedication, will always beat talent by itself.

- Clinton Anderson

topic: Hard Work, Dedication, Average, Work Dedication, Hard Work And Dedication

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

source: "Another Kind of Life; Victorian Giants review - birth of the outsider" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2018.

topic: Rain, Men, Average, Conformist, Standing In The Rain

The average English critic is a don manquÃ©, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in Gothic lettering) "Above all no enthusiasm".

- Constant Lambert

source: 'Opera' December 1950

topic: Average, Enthusiasm, Gothic

I had the benefit of experiencing a hundred times more than the average kid. I don't look back with regret at all. It was the best life ever.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Regret, Kids, Average

When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

topic: Creativity, Average, Perfect, Introversion, Odd One

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

- Crystal Eastman

source: Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Ignorance, Men, Average, Crumbs, Inefficiency

As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.

- Curt Schilling

topic: Thinking, Average, Designer

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

- Cynthia McKinney

source: "Former U.S. congresswoman McKinney speaks on state TV in Libya". www.cnn.com. May 22, 2011.

topic: War, Average, Lasts

God isn't really interested in our batting averages.

topic: Average

There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.

- Dalton Trumbo

topic: Running, Night, Average

The average man can't prove most of the things that he chooses to speak of, and still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of

- Damian Marley

source: Song: Patience

topic: Men, Average, Roots

Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.

topic: Government, Average, People

Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person.

- Daniel Gilbert

topic: Believe, Intelligent, Average

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

- Daniel J. Bernstein

topic: Average, Long, Giving

According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent on food, clothing, housing, and transportation combined. Compare this to the plight of medieval serfs. They only had to give the lord of the manor one-third of their output - and they were considered slaves. So what does that make us?

- Daniel J. Mitchell

topic: Average, Giving, Liberty, Serfs

Divorced women, compared to married women, are less satisfied with their lives, which is not surprising. But they're actually more cheerful, when you look at the average mood they're in in the course of the day.

- Daniel Kahneman

topic: Average, Cheerful, Looks

I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.

- Daniel Tammet

topic: Average, May, Not Sure, Savants, Above Average

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.

- Daniel Tammet

topic: Average, People, Expectations, Guidelines, Average Person

We're as average as everyday's wash.

- Darrell Royal

topic: Football, College, Average

The average taxpayer in Germany or Japan pays less for the defense of his country than the average taxpayer in America pays for the defense of Germany or Japan.

- David Bergland

topic: Country, Japan, Average

If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights in the afternoon (on average), and .667 life-altering epiphanies after each sunset.

topic: Morning, Sunset, Average, Life Altering, Unforgettable Moments

Research by Donald A. Redelmeier and Sheldon M. Singh has found that, on average, Oscar winners live nearly four years longer than nominees that don't win.

topic: Winning, Average, Years, Singh

Academics are, on average, pussies.

topic: Average

I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.

topic: Average, People, Sides, Happy People, Above Average

I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios and higher-than-average yield. Academic studies have shown that a strategy of buying out-of-favor stocks with low P/E, price-to-book and price-to-cash flow ratios outperforms the market pretty consistently over long periods of time.

source: "Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Classic Edition". Book by David Dreman, May 18, 1998.

topic: Book, Yield, Average, Long Periods Of Time

It is an old, old adage that if you want someone to do something, get them to believe it is their idea. Humanity is mind controlled and onlyslightly more conscious than your average zombie. Far fetched? No, no. I define mind control as the manipulation of someone's mind so that they think, and therefor act, the way you want them to.

topic: Believe, Thinking, Average, Mind Control

Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie.

source: David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

topic: Average, Humanity, Mind

On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.

topic: Average, People, Body, Online Advertising, Copywriting

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

topic: Business, Average, People

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

- David Puttnam

topic: Teacher, Average, World

Distractions are everywhere. And with the always-on technologies of today, they take a heavy toll on productivity. One study found that office distractions eat an average 2.1 hours a day. Another study, published in October 2005, found that employees spent an average of 11 minutes on a project before being distracted. After an interruption it takes them 25 minutes to return to the original task, if they do at all.

topic: Technology, Average, Office

There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.

topic: Notebook, Writing, Average, Homicide

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

topic: Average, Narrative, Truthful

Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.

topic: Couple, Average, Years

How you feel right now is about equally genetic and circumstantial, but how you will feel on average over the next ten years is fully 80 percent because of your genes.

topic: Happiness, Average, Years

President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won't admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs.

- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

source: Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

topic: Senior, Average, Years, Prescription Drugs, Congressman

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

- DeForest Kelley

topic: Average, Childhood, Individual, Scientism

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

topic: Teenager, Avid, Average, Blisters, Bowlers

If Lebron was playing in the late 80's and early 90's, just an average player

- Dennis Rodman

topic: Player, Average

One of the most distinguishing differences between liberals and conservatives in America is that the average Liberal feels that we should have little reservation about killing the unborn, while the average Conservative feels it is better to wait until after they are born before we kill them.

- Derek R. Audette

topic: Average, Differences, America

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