Top Average Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Average quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Abraham Verghese
We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
- Abraham Verghese
Collection: Average
Image of Wendy Mass
I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.
- Wendy Mass
Collection: Average
Image of Buddy Rich
Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.
- Buddy Rich
Collection: Average
Image of Matt Ridley
The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it was in Italy in 1951. The proportion of Vietnamese living on less than $2 a day has dropped from 90 per cent to 30 per cent in twenty years. The rich have got richer, but the poor have done even better.
- Matt Ridley
Collection: Average
Image of Peter Shaffer
All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump because the bit forbids it, and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little.
- Peter Shaffer
Collection: Average
Image of Dixie Lee Ray
Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.
- Dixie Lee Ray
Collection: Average
Image of Larry the Cable Guy
Remember, half the people you know are below average.
- Larry the Cable Guy
Collection: Average
Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Collection: Average
Image of Jerome Groopman
On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.
- Jerome Groopman
Collection: Average
Image of George Brett
I used to be a mad hitter. And then I learned the longer you wait out the ball, the better you see it. And the better you see it, the harder you hit it. And the harder you hit it, the higher your average is going to be. And the higher your average is, the more money you're going to make.
- George Brett
Collection: Average
Image of Zell Miller
You won't find average Americans on the left or on the right. You'll find them at Kmart.
- Zell Miller
Collection: Average
Image of Terri Windling
I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.
- Terri Windling
Collection: Average
Image of Daniel Suarez
For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?
- Daniel Suarez
Collection: Average
Image of Gore Vidal
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
- Gore Vidal
Collection: Average
Image of Steven Pinker
Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.
- Steven Pinker
Collection: Average
Image of James Bovard
The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.
- James Bovard
Collection: Average
Image of Reinhold Niebuhr
Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Collection: Average
Image of Bernard DeVoto
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.
- Bernard DeVoto
Collection: Average
Image of Richard Koch
Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.
- Richard Koch
Collection: Average
Image of Oliver North
The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than three. We've got that backward.
- Oliver North
Collection: Average
Image of M.J. Rose
Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.
- M.J. Rose
Collection: Average
Image of Orlando Aloysius Battista
Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.
- Orlando Aloysius Battista
Collection: Average
Image of John Bytheway
The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs?
- John Bytheway
Collection: Average
Image of Farrah Gray
We have to find areas in our lives that we feel most uncomfortable about and want to change. I decided to push myself because it allowed me to give back. I have a scholarship program. When I found out the average age of a homeless person is 9½ years old, I said there must be something that I can do. Now, I am the spokesman for the National Coalition for the Homeless.
- Farrah Gray
Collection: Average
Image of Andy Warhol
You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.
- Andy Warhol
Collection: Average
Image of Keith Johnstone
Most people I meet are secretly convinced that they’re a little crazier than the average person. People understand the energy necessary to maintain their own shields, but not the energy expended by other people. They understand that their own sanity is a performance, but when confronted by other people they confuse the person with the role.
- Keith Johnstone
Collection: Average
Image of Keith Johnstone
I tell people not to do their best. I don't know when that started. Quite a while ago. Because I . . . when they're doing their best I don't get their best. So I try to persuade them to be average. Because if you're wonderful and you're average, you're still wonderful. If you're a bad improviser and you're average, you're what you are.
- Keith Johnstone
Collection: Average
Image of Douglas McGregor
The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.
- Douglas McGregor
Collection: Average
Image of Eric Thomas
The difference between average and good. Good and Great! Great and Phenomenal! It's their mindset!
- Eric Thomas
Collection: Average
Image of Ben Silbermann
We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.
- Ben Silbermann
Collection: Average
Image of Paul Brown
The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs of dams were on average 50% above their original estimate. Some designed to reduce flooding made it worse, and there were many unexpected environmental disadvantages, including the extinction of fish and bird species. Half the world's wetlands had been lost because of dams.
- Paul Brown
Collection: Average
Image of Richard Jeni
You know what the average person is? Average.
- Richard Jeni
Collection: Average
Image of Warren Weaver
One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange fact that events which are individually capricious and unpredictable can, when treated en masse, lead to very stable average performances.
- Warren Weaver
Collection: Average
Image of Gary Chapman
Recent research has indicated that the average individual listens for only seventeen seconds before interrupting and interjecting his own ideas.
- Gary Chapman
Collection: Average
Image of Thom Hartmann
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 types of symbiotic organisms necessary for plant roots to absorb minerals from the soil. Today North America averages around 15.24 cm (6 in) of topsoil and most if it is exhausted of nutrients and much is devoid of life.
- Thom Hartmann
Collection: Average
Image of Trevor Baylis
As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.
- Trevor Baylis
Collection: Average
Image of Jimmy Cannon
Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.
- Jimmy Cannon
Collection: Average
Image of Judith Krantz
I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.
- Judith Krantz
Collection: Average
Image of Stuart Chase
Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.
- Stuart Chase
Collection: Average
Image of Nick Saban
It's not human nature to be great. It's human nature to survive, to be average and do what you have to do to get by. That is normal. When you have something good happen, it's the special people that can stay focused and keep paying attention to detail, working to get better and not being satisfied with what they have accomplished.
- Nick Saban
Collection: Average
Image of Jason Statham
I'm used to being efficient and a guy that can do more than the average guy can.
- Jason Statham
Collection: Average
Image of Alfred Sheinwold
Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.
- Alfred Sheinwold
Collection: Average
Image of Mitchell Baker
The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.
- Mitchell Baker
Collection: Average
Image of Drew Houston
You become the average of the five people you hang out with.
- Drew Houston
Collection: Average
Image of John Garrett
It's a good news - bad news type of situation. The good news is that we won; the bad news is that my average is 9.00.
- John Garrett
Collection: Average
Image of Daniel J. Mitchell
According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent on food, clothing, housing, and transportation combined. Compare this to the plight of medieval serfs. They only had to give the lord of the manor one-third of their output - and they were considered slaves. So what does that make us?
- Daniel J. Mitchell
Collection: Average
Image of Jimmy Doolittle
I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.
- Jimmy Doolittle
Collection: Average
Image of Bill Bryson
You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.
- Bill Bryson
Collection: Average
Image of Paul H. Dunn
To be average is to be as near the bottom as the top.
- Paul H. Dunn
Collection: Average