Average Quotes
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.
What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners.
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.
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.
Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.
Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.
The average human's fundamental project is to find someone else to blame for their problems.
The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.
Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.
The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in our emotions about achieving our goals.
Average people look forward to "getting off." Successful people look forward to "getting on."
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.
It's a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he's dead.
'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
The average individual spends many, many lifetimes meditating and seeking and chewing bubblegum and doing things like that to attain the experience of samadhi.
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.
In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average people one should combine magnanimity and strictness.
The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.
The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.
While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.
The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country.
We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.
By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.
God didn't create any of us to be average. He didn't make us to barely get by. We were created to excel.
You have a destiny to fulfill, something greater than you've ever even imagined. But if you're going to become all you were created to be, you've got to take off the “average” label.
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.
It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.
A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.
As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.
We're not going to have a perfect batting average and it's important that Americans understand that.
Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.
Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.
You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.