Average Quotes
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.
Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
Actually, I think the average voice is like 70 percent tone and 30 percent noise. My voice is 95 percent noise.
The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.
It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.
One of the embarrassing facts from social psychology is that most stereotypes are true, in the only sense that stereotypes are ever true: on average.
Everyone can be awesome if they want it bad enough. And I don't believe that anyone wants to be average. I think everybody desires greatness, at least at some point in their life.
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!
The average income in France is $1,000 a month, and you can't live decently on that.
On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.
Individuals who could not form cooperative alliances, on average, died sooner and left fewer children. And so we are the descendants of the successful cooperators.
Average is the enemy of excellence, and average commitment will prevent you from enduring to the end.
I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
Socialism in Russia has not brought about an improvement in the conditions of the average man which can be compared with the improvement of conditions, during the same period, in the United States.
I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read a book, I feel like I am getting two years of life experiences.
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
He can run, steal bases, throw, hit for average, and hit with power like I've never seen. Just don't put him at shortstop.
If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.
The mood state Americans are in, on average, when watching television is mildly depressed.
I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that.
I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.
An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand.
It seems to me there's so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe, if you look hard, there are more wonders in this universe than you could ever have dreamt of.
In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.
Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.
Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.
If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.
