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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas -- Eleanor Roosevelt
A brilliant mind was never as clever as three average minds sniffing after something of interest. -- Robert Reed
Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. -- John Philip Sousa
Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones? -- Onyi Anyado
Little minds think and talk about people. Average minds think and talk about things and actions. Great minds think and talk about ideas. -- Benjamin Franklin
The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create. -- Emma Goldman
You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year. -- Ezra Pound
To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time. -- Susan B. Anthony
Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity. -- Franz Grillparzer
There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons. -- Fulton J. Sheen
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist. The time is past when we can be content with our social fabric merely because it is "ordained by divine right," or by the majesty of the law. -- Emma Goldman
Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie. -- David Icke
I always felt good about myself. I was just an average person. I always felt I could do anything anyone else could. If an average person makes up their mind to do something, they can. -- Larry Holmes
Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with. -- Peter Buck
It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed. -- Norman Lear
I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel. -- Samantha Shannon
Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy. -- Roger Ailes
If I'm going to make something in the kitchen, even if it's something as simple as a sandwich, I will take the extra time to make it a great sandwich instead of just an average sandwich. I don't mind investing a little extra work to make something special. -- Kyle MacLachlan
If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins. -- Nancy Lublin
We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind. -- Paul Watson

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