Browsing Topic Best Average Quotes

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that’s in us.

The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

I’m not the average girl from your video and I ain’t built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because I am a queen.

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

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that’s not comfortable for the average person.

Normal people can be happy with a regular life, but there is more to life than just plodding through an average existence.

A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

I come from a world where the word ‘trauma’ doesn’t exist, because we are too poor. I didn’t have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn’t all that bad.

The six and one-fourth hours’ television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind needn’t make any pictures since the pictures are provided, so the mind cuts current as low as it can.

The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

You were born awesome. Please don’t die average.

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.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

My phone rings, they call me up and say, ‘Chael, your testosterone level is too high.’ I say, ‘Well, how high was it?’ They say, ‘0.7.’ I said, ‘What’s normal?’ They say, ‘0.6.’; I said, ‘One-tenth? You’re telling me I’m one-tenth higher than the average man? Re-test that – you must have caught me on a low day.’

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.

The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.

I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders’ traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis.

I’d rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

One of the greatest benefits of our salvation has to be that of hearing God speak to us personally. There can be no intimate relationship with our heavenly Father without it. But, as easy as it is for us to speak to Him, the average Christian has a hard time hearing His voice. This is not the way the Lord intended it to be.

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.

The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him.

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.

African Americans, in particular, saw their cumulative wealth crash. They used to have 10 cents on the dollar of the average white family. That 10 cents on the dollar that the African American family used to have crashed down to 5 cents on the dollar, given the focus of predatory lending on the African American community and the degree to which they were really devastated by the foreclosure crisis. So yeah, I think there is a lot of disappointment out there.

The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.