One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
That's a very hard thing to help the establishment know. We're still an establishment that thinks the average mentality is something like… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None… — Rachel Cusk 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
Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time. — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
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In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over… — Dudley Moore Copy Share Image
I DECLARE I am special and extraordinary. I am not average! I have been custom-made. I am one of a kind. Of… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable? — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long… — John Paulson Copy Share Image
It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
With average or even minimum ability, success is still very possible. — Jacob Gelt Dekker Copy Share Image
“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've… — Michiel Huisman Copy Share Image
Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed) — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Basically, I'm just an average person who takes a little extra care of his health. — Sangram Singh Copy Share Image
Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention… — Grant Cardone Copy Share Image
What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Portray your product as average and that's all that it will ever be. — Jeremy Gutsche Copy Share Image
Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk. — John Slattery Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories. — Ethan Zuckerman Copy Share Image
The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet… — Rose George Copy Share Image
I think it's fair to set limits, so that people cannot receive more than the equivalent of the national average wage while… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
I understand that for an average working mother it is difficult to take out lots of time for their child. But make… — Poonam Dhillon Copy Share Image
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