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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. -- Winston Churchill
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. -- John D. Rockefeller
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. -- Stephen Hawking
Refuse to be average. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Average is Your Enemy. -- Lance Armstrong
Average is not the best leverage -- Constance Chuks Friday
You know what the average person is? Average. -- Richard Jeni
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers. -- Seth Godin
Quite or be exceptional. Average is for losers. -- Seth Godin
Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible. -- Seth Godin
The average American is nothing if not patriotic. -- Herbert Croly
Average people push great people out of a company. -- Jason Calacanis
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. -- Jim Rohn
Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.' -- Chip Kelly
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. -- Andy Rooney
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists. -- Sam Ewing
Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely. -- Robert Charles Wilson
Average talent, plus hard work and dedication, will always beat talent by itself. -- Clinton Anderson
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. -- Jim Rohn
Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them. -- Robin Sharma
Average people look forward to "getting off." Successful people look forward to "getting on." -- Jim Rohn
Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer. -- Robert Reich
Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr
Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average. -- Buddy Rich
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. -- John B. S. Haldane
Apart from the fact that I can move the bike fast, I am basically Joe Average, -- Jens Voigt
I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me. -- Mike Tyson
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. -- H. L. Mencken
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. -- George Carlin
Average is the enemy of excellence, and average commitment will prevent you from enduring to the end. -- Kevin W. Pearson
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions. -- George Carlin
Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that. -- Stephen F. Lynch
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. -- C. J. Cherryh
Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it. -- Jim Rohn
You have to be prepared for people to hate you. Average people love to be average, because nobody bothers them. -- Kelly Cutrone
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand -- Ethel Merman
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. -- Sigmund Freud
Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses. -- Melissa Bean
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. -- Evan Esar
I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'. -- Bruce Schneier
They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do. -- George Sutherland
My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life. -- Douglas Sirk
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war. -- Ben Barnes
Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie. -- David Icke
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. -- John D. Rockefeller
I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue. -- Bobby Seale
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone. -- Germaine Greer
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man. -- Theodore Roosevelt
On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be. -- CeeLo Green
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. -- Carl Jung
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. -- Arthur Helps
For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza! -- Jay Leno
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -- H. L. Mencken
Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message. -- Ted Cruz
Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan. -- Ingrid Newkirk
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. -- Andrew Carnegie
I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it. -- J. Cole
Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff. -- Rob Zombie
If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien. -- Dwayne Johnson
We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But if your acquaintances online say or do something, it does not. People on average have about 106 Facebook friends, but only 5 or 6 real friends. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.' -- Chris Farley
Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself. And they taught me to think of myself as the average guy. Sometimes the average guy belongs in a role more than your matinee idol-type of person. We have to have people we can relate to. -- Joe Pesci
A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust... Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule. It certainly is not ruling in our favor. -- Kyrsten Sinema
Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL. -- Hunter S. Thompson
All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit. -- Bobby Knight
Never settle for average -- Steve Jobs
Get excellence or live average. -- Onyi Anyado
Academics are, on average, pussies. -- David Buss
I'm an average, everyday girl. -- Chloe Grace Moretz
I won't be labeled as average. -- Rachel
Normal is the average of deviance. -- Rita Mae Brown
I'm an utterly average, total geek. -- Julia Roberts
We're as average as everyday's wash. -- Darrell Royal
I wasn't going to be average. -- Chamique Holdsclaw
Everybody thinks their website is above average. -- Matt Cutts
The average pregnant woman farts 15 times that! -- Jessica Simpson
Our average holding period is four years. -- Walter Schloss
The average permanent lasts about four months. -- Dana Gould
The average person has one Fallopian tube. -- Bo Burnham
There are no prizes for average performance. -- Brian Tracy
I didn't come here to be average. -- Michael Jordan
I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen. -- James Van Der Beek
I'm proud to represent the average woman. -- Jennifer Hudson
I will not be labelled as average. -- Rachel Scott
The average man is not hard to mystify. -- Howard Thurston
The average person expels flatulence 15 times each day! -- Jessica Simpson
In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence. -- Pat Brown
I eat more vegetables than the average vegetarian. -- Robert Atkins
You were born awesome. Please don't die average. -- Robin Sharma
Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23. -- Charles Bukowski
I'm just an average woman with average concerns. -- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
I'm just an average Canadian kid playing hockey. -- Joe Thornton
The average man don't like trouble and danger. -- Mark Twain
I pride myself on average, not home runs. -- Bobby Abreu
The average man. The emergence of the concept. -- Adolphe Quetelet
Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts. -- Richard Koch
I have less compassion than the average human. -- Curtis Jackson
I'm intimidated by the fear of being average. -- Taylor Swift
I'm an average citizen and always have been. -- Sandy Adams
The average person tells a few white lies. -- Zooey Deschanel
Half the people you know are below average. -- Steven Wright
Manhattan is increasingly less available to average-income earners. -- Janine di Giovanni
Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people. -- Andy Andrews
For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. -- Kevin Mitnick
Don't settle for average. You were made for greatness. -- Victoria Osteen
...beds last on an average much longer than marriages... -- Michel Houellebecq
What the average call excellent, the excellent call average. -- Onyi Anyado
In social media marketing, average is no longer adequate. -- Jay Baer
Unlike most other people, I'm just an average person. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average -- Alonzo King
Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big. -- James St. James
Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average -- John Warren Kindt
Your average comedian doesn't know the podcast universe, really. -- Scott Aukerman
Remember, half the people you know are below average. -- Larry the Cable Guy
The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer. -- Edward Kennedy
We care little about what the average citizen thinks. -- Tom Metzger
My exploits are nothing now to the average person. -- David Bailey

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