Averages Quotes
41 quotes by 41 authors
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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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Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then,…
— Ron Chernow
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The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100.
— Joshua Kushner
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The lower the family income, the higher the probability that the mother must work. Today, 1 out of 5 of these working mothers has children…
— John F. Kennedy
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For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit…
— Gore Vidal
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Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.
— Robert Reich
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The QSM Software Almanac is an invaluable resource. It establishes a norm for software projects, including best of class, worst of class and averages. In…
— Tom DeMarco
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Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could…
— Ray Dalio
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The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to…
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of…
— Christopher Morley
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Psycho? The woman's senile. We had to stop at about thirty gas stations on the way over here. Finally I got tired of getting out…
— John Kennedy Toole
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It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble. ... If you're constantly pushing yourself higher ... the…
— Oprah Winfrey
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I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
— Bill Mauldin
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Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of…
— Douglas Coupland
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In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.
— Peter Diamandis
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Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.
— Bill Buckner
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Averages are mean.
— Nikhil Saluja
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Health care is treating us as averages, not unique individuals, [but] at the end of the day, the patient is not the same thing as…
— Suman Rai
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I have faith in the law of averages. Every day that I can remember, I awoke. I have little reason to believe that today will…
— Rock Cowles
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