Quotes about average
average definitions good-to-great
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average. James C. Collins
average fans details
The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and turn it into a movie. There'd be way too much ground work you'd have to lay. It's OK to have detail and density, but if you rely on being a lifelong science-fiction fan to understand what the story is about, then it's not going to translate to a broader audience. James Cameron
average two mind
Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity. Franz Grillparzer
average the-end-of-the-day being-played
At the end of the day, there are a hell of a lot of notes being played out there and I defy the average middle-American or the average punter to differentiate between them. Jeff Beck
average knives secret
I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course. Jeaniene Frost
average proud
I'm proud to represent the average woman. Jennifer Hudson
average democracy voters
The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average. Jeff Cooper
average car choices
The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible. George Will
average guy culture
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. George Saunders
average income equal
Your income tends to equal the average income of your five best friends, Jeff Olson
average fundamentals blame
The average human's fundamental project is to find someone else to blame for their problems. Jim Goad
average years california
In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services. Elton Gallegly
average guy used
I'm used to being efficient and a guy that can do more than the average guy can. Jason Statham
average land cities
Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land tax, rather than to increase the wage tax - the two alternatives open to the City (of Pittsburgh). It is the use and occupancy of property that creates the need for the municipal services that appear as the largest item in the budget - fire and police protection, waste removal, and public works. The average increase in tax bills of city residents will be about twice as great with wage tax increase than with a land tax increase. Herbert Simon
average ideas yield
The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their heads. The few friends the forest had were spoken of, when they were spoken of at all, as impractical theorists, fanatics, or "denudatics," more or less touched in the head. What talk there was about forest protection was no more to the average American that the buzzing of a mosquito, and just about as irritating. Gifford Pinchot
average law people
One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though. Gregory Benford
average way different
We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else. Gore Vidal
average freedom-of-speech liberty
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
average beings disappear experience giving human learned neuroses persons serving start thousands
Human beings are complicated, yet from our experience of working with hundreds of thousands of people, weve learned that most or even all of the average persons neuroses and hang-ups disappear when they start giving and serving others.
average good green knows light pass shoot taller values versatile
He's a pretty versatile player. He's taller than average at 6-11 and he can shoot it, he can pass it and he values the game. If he doesn't have a good shot, he'll pass it, but he also knows he's got the green light to shoot it. Bo Ryan
average correspond designed recent research shown speeds walk
Generally, we have designed the flashing don't walk to correspond to an average pedestrian speed. In recent years, research has shown that pedestrian speeds are not that similar.
average classic economy explain gas helps issue majority notice paradox people pocketbook prices
Gas prices are the classic pocketbook issue for the average person and the average family, and these are things that they notice very much. It helps explain the paradox we see in the polls: The economy is very good, but right now a majority of people say it isn't. The hurricane, and its aftermath, will only exacerbate this problem.
average good hurt
Good luck. That's how many strikeouts (an average of 245) over how many years (27)? Straight. Without getting hurt, without whatever. That's pretty good.
average law ethics
Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date. George Bernard Shaw
average order differences
Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude. Fred Brooks
average sometimes life-is
It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here. Franz Kafka
average feelings rising
It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again. George Eliot
average growth president
The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle. Fred Allen
average president dollars
Tens of millions of dollars spent, all meant to get Jeb Bush elected president. He currently is polling on average at around 5%. Chris Hayes
average suits income
The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit. George Orwell
average class soul
The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!
average would-be literature
As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.'
average ears reputation
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were. Francis Quarles