The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. — Andrew Carnegie 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
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
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
I have always said to workers that they have to work hard, to produce more and better. In Chile, we need to… — Salvador Allende Copy Share Image
In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence… — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
I wanted something that was really well-made but also still hitting a price point that's tangible and logical for average people -… — Zendaya Copy Share Image
It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
I was a writer. I couldn't sell anything, and the comedians were among the dumbest people I had ever met. They'd all… — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
No week is ever the same in my world! An average week in my life changes based on my shooting schedule, if… — Shemar Moore Copy Share Image
If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity. We're… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
The issues that most impact the average person are made at the local level. — Erin Brockovich Copy Share Image
Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public. — Placido Domingo Copy Share Image
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