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  • The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. -- Colin Powell
  • Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them. -- Michael Bergdahl
  • I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special. -- Richard Dawkins
  • Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. -- Garrison Keillor
  • I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others. -- Daniel Tammet
  • Everybody thinks their website is above average. -- Matt Cutts
  • Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns. -- Gary Hamel
  • There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average. -- Hal Higdon
  • The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average. -- Morrie Brickman
  • The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are. -- Friedrich Schiller
  • The beauty of America is that the average person always thinks she is above average. -- Sam Levenson
  • Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it. -- William J. Clinton
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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 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
  • Not saying I rate myself lots now, but I rate myself more because I've been exercising. I'd say a six now. Just above average. There are a lot of good-looking people out there, you see, so more than six is getting a bit cocky. -- Peter Andre
  • I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. -- Will Smith
  • I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic. -- Will Smith
  • I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan. -- Adam Green
  • 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
  • Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence,... -- Andrew Tobias
  • The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage. -- Warren Buffett
  • She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average. -- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
  • Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp. -- Jeff MacNelly
  • Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  • 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
  • That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. -- Garrison Keillor
  • 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
  • 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
  • Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it. -- James Frey
  • If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you've got left are the sheep. -- Alfred Bester
  • Are you an action-oriented, take-charge person interested in exciting new challenges? As director of a major public-sector organization, you will manage a large armed division and interface with other senior executives in a team-oriented, multinational initiative in the global marketplace. Successful candidate will have above-average oral-presentation skills -- Winston Churchill
  • I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. While the other guy's eatin'? I'm working. While the other guy's making love, I mean, I'm making love, too. But I'm working really hard at it. -- Will Smith
  • My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
  • My interest in foreign policy is above the average voter's interest. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it. -- Michael Baumgartner
  • 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
  • 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
  • In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself. -- Lev Vygotsky
  • 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
  • Many counties in Maryland are above the average unemployment rate for both Maryland and the United States. We need representation in Congress who will make creating jobs the No. 1 priority so the people of Maryland can get back to work. -- Andrew P. Harris
  • As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average minds (and hearts) to work that's beyond most people's capacity, and perhaps save a few lives. -- Dave deBronkart
  • The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch. -- Rabbit Maranville
  • 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
  • Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average -- John Warren Kindt
  • By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average. -- James C. Collins
  • Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average. -- Ronald J. Sider
  • 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
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