The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers. — Dave Barry
To the mediocre, mediocrity appears great. — Indian Proverbs
Your goal in investing isn’t to earn average returns; you want to do better than average. — Howard S. Marks
Only the mediocre are always at their best. — Jean Giraudoux
Short Above Average Quotes
No exceptional person ever lived like an average person. — Andrew Tate
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider. — Mark Twain
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average. — Robert Burns
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. — Andy Rooney
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. — Jimmy Johnson
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. — Simone de Beauvoir
Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal. — Uma Thurman
Above Average Image Quotes
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
Being Above Average Quotes
Investing is a funny business. It's really easy to be average. Just buy an index fund. It's really hard to be above average. — Howard Marks
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end. — William Howard Taft
In what may as well be starkly labelled smug satisfaction, an amazing 94% [of college instructors] rate themselves as above average teachers, and 68% rank themselves in the top quarter of teaching performances. — K. Patricia Cross
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average. — James C. Collins
It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them. — Robert Musil
In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority. — James S. Coleman
Average is a failing formula.
Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence. — Andrew Tobias
I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy. — Madonna Ciccone
The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average. — Charles A. Murray
In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average. — Sayings
What Is Normal Quotes
Normality is what weak people call living, I call it death — Greg Plitt
I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it. — Alexander McQueen
Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that. — Sayings
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being. — Winona Ryder
All these social media sites allow us to confuse truth and popularity. That has to be fixed. Because every normal citizen has a right to know what is factual versus what is amplified by good actors or bad actors. — Chamath Palihapitiya
So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really? — Jacque Fresco
We bury the greatness inside us when we choose to be average.
Capitalism is what happens when people drop their time preference, defer immediate gratification, and invest in the future. Debt‐fueled mass consumption is as much a normal part of capitalism as asphyxiation is a normal part of respiration. — Saifedean Ammous
What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment. — Thierry Henry
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. — Charles Addams
I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists. — Nelson Mandela
Meaning Full Quotes
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. — William Blake
Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world. — Ramana Maharshi
In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love. — Cesar Chavez
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. — Walter Scott
The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion. — Pedro Almodovar
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. — D. Elton Trueblood
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full? — Sojourner Truth
It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice. — Dan Millman
I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that. — John Tesh
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through? — Simone Weil
In order to attract and keep superior staff, I paid wages and bonuses well above the market rate. This actually saved money because my employees were far more productive than average. — Edward O. Thorp
All I knew is that I never wanted to be average.
The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than the woman. Whether deep thought, reason, or imagination or merely the use of the senses and hands.....We may also infer.....The average mental power in man must be above that of woman. — Charles Darwin
While the other guy's sleeping?
I'm working.
While the other guy's eatin'?
I'm working. — Will Smith
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are. — Friedrich Schiller
Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines. — Alvin Plantinga
I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact. — George Mikes
I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely 'normal' life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more - much, much more. — Melody Carlson
It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the list to your thirtieth or fiftieth favorite pick, would create a much greater potential to earn above-average investment returns. — Joel Greenblatt
Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term. — John Paulson
We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average - are everyday speech. We don't even question the language, although the challenges we face require a different mindset. — L. Todd Rose
Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it. — William J. Clinton
Everybody thinks their website is above average. — Matt Cutts
Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them. — Michael Bergdahl
The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage. — Warren Buffett
Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns. — Gary Hamel
Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who is above, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services. — Elton Gallegly
All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best. — Mark Twain
I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. — Will Smith
She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average. — Cardinal Jean Francois de Retz
I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people. — David Cross
Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise. — Leon Trotsky
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for. — Jean Baudrillard
A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. — Robert Musil
My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average. — Patrick J. Kennedy
I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic. — Will Smith
Even a child who's above average on self-control could improve their financial outcomes in mid-life if they improved their self-control skills early on. — Terrie Moffitt
I don't know what the average income of Muslim-Americans is, but Muslim-American immigrants of recent vintage, I bet they have a very above-average representation in professional and business occupations. — Thomas Friedman
Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with jobs. — Jill Stein
Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average — John Warren Kindt
She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state. — Jerry Brown
We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp. — Jeff MacNelly
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