Law Of Averages Quotes:

It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.

- Bruce Lee

source: Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.114, Tuttle Publishing

topic: Average, Law, Law Of Averages

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Closest, Law Of Averages

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Graduation, Moving, Trying, Mistakes Happen, Law Of Averages

There are just four kinds of bets. There are good bets, bad bets, bets that you win, and bets that you lose. Winning a bad bet can be the most dangerous outcome of all, because a success of that kind can encourage you to take more bad bets in the future, when the odds will be running against you. You can also lose a good bet no matter how sound the underlying proposition, but if you keep placing good bets, over time, the law of averages will be working for you.

- Larry Hite

topic: Running, Winning, Odds, Law Of Averages, Betting

You know the law of averages says: Anything will happen that can

- Steve Goodman

topic: Law, Average, Say Anything, Law Of Averages

Don't leave it to the law of averages to make you break even.

- Mike Caro

topic: Law, Average, Break, Law Of Averages, Break Even

In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

- Neville Cardus

topic: Baseball, Average, Law, Law Of Averages

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

- Bill Mauldin

topic: Science, Average, Law, Law Of Averages, Fugitive

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

- Oprah Winfrey

source: Oprah Winfrey’s Commencement address at Harvard University, Сambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. May 30, 2013.

topic: Graduation, Moving, Fall, Law Of Averages, Icarus

Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.

- Allan McNish

topic: Sports, Average, Law, Sports Cars, Law Of Averages

The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it? Can anything continue without change? Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

- Pete Townshend

topic: Horse, Mistake, Average, Law Of Averages

Psycho? The woman's senile. We had to stop at about thirty gas stations on the way over here. Finally I got tired of getting out of the car and showing her which was the Men's and which was the Women's, so I let her pick them herself. I worked out a system. The law of averages. I laid money on her and she came out about fifty-fifty.

- John Kennedy Toole

topic: Tired, Men, Average, Law Of Averages, Senile

For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? To the designer of the camera? to the finger on the button? to the law of averages?

- Gore Vidal

source: Gore Vidal (1982). “The second American revolution and other essays (1976-1982)”, Random House Inc

topic: Photography, Art, Law, Law Of Averages, Untalented

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

- Jimmy Doolittle

topic: Average, Law, Lucky, Law Of Averages, So Lucky