Average Quotes
I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.
Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.
I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns.
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.
In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.
Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.
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.
As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.
Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.
A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.
Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.
The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it.
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.
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.
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.
When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
If there were no limitations or consequences, what would your perfect average day look like?
Average companies give their people something to work on. The most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.
Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.
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.
My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.
The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.
The average housewife goes to the restaurant to relax and enjoy the food. But when Eva walks in, she becomes the center of attention.
Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy
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.
You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.
Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.
The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.
You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.
There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.
Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.
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.