Best Average Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

…this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to itself a higher wisdom than that of the average citizen. This is the fundamental difference between freedom and serfdom.

The average session takes about one to two hours. It’s totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.

There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

If I hadn’t lost my hearing, I wouldn’t be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my potential. I had to be better than the average person to succeed.

Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I’m in, that I’d attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.

I think I can safely call 2012 average. Overall, it was a stronger year for nonfiction than fiction – a situation that would’ve surprised me back in January, when I was looking forward to big new novels from several authors I really love.

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

The average person is allergic to the words of wisdom.

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

If zero percent of the elites support something, very low chance it’s going to pass, if 100% support something, very high chance it’s going to pass. Same thing for organized interest groups. But for the average voter, it’s a flat line. Which says it doesn’t matter whether zero percent of the public believes something or 100% of the average voters believe something – it doesn’t affect the probability that that thing will be enacted.

Most Americans have so much crap, that you could lose most of it and still have way more stuff than the average Canadian.