Average Quotes
I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity.
An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants, for the hell of it.
The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.
It takes years for average persons in the nagual's world to remove themselves from their involvement with themselves and be capable of seeing the wonder of it all.
Genius discovers a system; average talent stereotypes it till it is shattered by fresh genius.
Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.
There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.
I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.
A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.
Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not.
Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.
Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.
The thing that bugs me is the average woman's complete ignorance of the functional purpose of cosmetics, which is to supplement, not conceal.
I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.
Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.
I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.
Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.
For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.
I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.
When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.
A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.
I don't particularly like the word average because when it comes down to it there is no average in people. Everybody has their own streak of uniqueness within them.
Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.
Network marketing is the big wave of the future. It's taking the place of franchising, which now requires too much capital for the average person.
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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.
Commit yourself to do something innovative which average people are afraid to do. Aim high and push yourself to achieve every thing you wished.
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.
Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.
I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.
Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.