Quotes and Sayings About Average
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
-- A. E. Housman -
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
-- A. Whitney Brown -
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.
-- Aaron Ross -
the apathy and inattention of the average citizen is beyond comprehension.
-- Abigail McCarthy -
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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 -
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 -
We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.
-- Adam Carolla -
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The average man. The emergence of the concept.
-- Adolphe Quetelet -
Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself.
-- Adrian Tan -
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 -
I'm just an average woman with average concerns.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
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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.
-- Al McGuire -
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 -
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
-- Alan Guth -
That's referee Mike Reed's 50th booking of the season, which works out at an average of six a game.
-- Alan Parry -
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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.
-- Albert Camus -
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 = mc², 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 -
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 -
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 -
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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 -
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 -
The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.
-- Alexis Carrel -
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 -
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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 -
When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
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 -
Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average
-- Alonzo King -
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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 PlantingaSource : Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.149, Oxford University Press
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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