Average Quotes
1590 quotes by 1249 authors
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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
— Winston Churchill
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It's hard to have a relationship in this business...it's gonna take a very special woman...or a bunch of average ones.
— Bill Hicks
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I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity.
— Branch Warren
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The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.
— Brian Tracy
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I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree…
— Mark Twain
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease…
— Hans Rosling
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Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that,…
— Augustus De Morgan
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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 and desires are…
— Mike Tyson
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By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.... From television, the child will have learned how to pick…
— John F. Kennedy
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We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys,…
— Bobby Seale
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If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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The average millionaire can't tell you who got thrown off the island last night.
— Dave Ramsey
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When the Europeans first arrived in North America, the average depth of the topsoil was 53.34 cm (1¾ ft) and it was rich in the…
— Thom Hartmann
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If done correctly, these techniques can allow the Bobo pilgrim to have 6 unforgettable moments a morning, 2 rapturous experiences over lunch, 1,5 profound insights…
— David Brooks
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A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary,…
— Bertrand Russell
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I'm Europe's most underpaid and underappreciated boss. I'm paid about 20 times more than the average Ryanair employee and I think the gap should be…
— Michael O'Leary
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The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in…
— Maggie Gallagher
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In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played…
— T.E. Lawrence
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For a moment there I convinced myself I had my back against a wall, and suddenly the only wall I find my back against is…
— Andrew McMahon
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