Average Quotes
1590 quotes by 1249 authors
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Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market…
— Brian Tracy
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Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.
— Placido Domingo
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On the average, five times as many people read the headlines as read the body copy.
— David Ogilvy
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I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.
— Sarah Palin
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Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously…
— Paul Muldoon
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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…
— H.G. Wells
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The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to himself. Perhaps you are chasing rainbows. You're after the…
— Carlos Castaneda
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The average taxpayer in Germany or Japan pays less for the defense of his country than the average taxpayer in America pays for the defense…
— David Bergland
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If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and…
— L. Neil Smith
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One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average…
— Noam Chomsky
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You can be a great model, an average one, or a bad model. You may think it doesn't matter to you, but it does to…
— Henry B. Eyring
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I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient…
— Charles Stross
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As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my…
— Dan Simmons
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While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special.
— James Bovard
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It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his…
— Albert J. Nock
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The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and…
— Karel Capek
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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 a million times.
— Dudley Moore
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The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It…
— Emile Durkheim
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