The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired. — James O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that. — Stephen F. Lynch Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to be, I don't want to say, an average engineer. I always wanted to do something different, something… — Grant Imahara Copy Share Image
All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't… — Brother Ali Copy Share Image
I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
On a normal novel, I would like to get 2,000 to 2,500 words done in a day; I average 10,000 words a… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
The results speak for themselves: Businesses that competitively sourced service contracts saved an average of about 22 percent. Even more impressive -… — Brian Miller Copy Share Image
Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses. — Melissa Bean Copy Share Image
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Huge disparity between Premier League and EFL revenues means the average top-flight club receives as much for 90 minutes of football in… — Simon Jordan Copy Share Image
It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Even when 'Kaakha Kaakha' was released, there were people who gave it an average rating and said they couldn't figure out what… — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be… — James Fox Copy Share Image
The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
We wanna believe that we're different than the average guy that's working 9-to-5, that our thoughts are different than his. Our inspirations… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
Who's to say what's better or worse anyway? Who's to even say what's normal or average? We're all different people and we're… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
When my first daughter was born, my husband held her in his hands and said, 'My God, she's so beautiful.' I unwrapped… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism. — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Republicans just don't get that their idea of scandal is not what the average American thinks is a serious scandal. — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
To be honest, as an average American, one who got his education in the ocean, I didn't know where Portugal was. — Garrett McNamara Copy Share Image
But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
When we teach kids to follow the rules that there’s only one right answer & to avoid mistakes at all costs, we’re… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wasn't a great student, C average. I was pretty shy, but I drank a lot of beer. — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
You give me enough shots, I'll average 20. You give me a particular system where I stick close to the basket, I'll… — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the… — George McGovern Copy Share Image
I feel like it's not a bad average for every album I've got in the United States to be nominated for something… — Estelle Copy Share Image
The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap! — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
