Quotes by Average Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average Alonzo King conformity safety average 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 moral-fiber average thinking Interruptions: The average worker gets interrupted five times each hour. It takes an average of 5 minutes to handle each interruption and 1 minute to get back to what you were doing. This adds up to 30 minutes each hour or 50% of your time!! Alvin Toffler add average thinking So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough. Amanda Bynes taken average people Women are far more likely to follow orders to evacuate, especially women with children. At the same time, women were much more likely to die during the South Asian tsunami. In some villages it was 3 to 1. And that was party because of the average strength it takes to hold onto something. Also it was cultural; women were less likely to know how to swim, as were children. So much of this is based on how we develop our own survival skills before something goes wrong: Even if nothing goes wrong, it might be good to know how to swim. Amanda Ripley party average children ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell. Ambrose Bierce independent average men You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you. Amy Alcott practice golf average The top stars like Angelina, Cameron (Diaz), Sandra Bullock and probably now Jennifer Lawrence probably gets paid the same as their male counterparts. The problem is the averages. Because there are not enough parts for women to star in and get paid. So when you look at the total amount women make as compared to men it's paltry. Amy Pascal stars average men I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits Anais Nin unconventional want average The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. Anatole France average men life The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of brow-beating triteness. Andre Naffis-Sahely labels political average Abdellatif [Laâbi] was wildly popular with his students and it wasn't difficult to see why: like them, he knew that average Moroccans were hungry, jobless and desperate. They also knew they were ruled by a paranoid king who was more comfortable with Parisian financiers than his own subjects. Andre Naffis-Sahely students kings average Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time. Andrew Carnegie average giving men Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time. Andrew Carnegie desire average men The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. Andrew Carnegie work-ethic energy average I would never say anything about [James] LeBron because I know how much he means to the community; I know how much he does in the community, which is honestly 100 times more than your average athlete. Andrew Hawkins athlete average mean People say to us, look, it may well be the case that there are fewer wars and fewer genocides, but surely more people are being killed. But when we look at this, the number of people killed in wars involving a state every year, all the wars, and you can see there's a high point, that's the Korean war, and it keeps on going down and down and down. If you look at the average number of people killed per conflict per year, it goes from 37-thousand in 1950 to just 600 in 2002. Andrew Mack average war years Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence. Andrew Tobias hay-fever suffering average I want to be more consistent. I wanna get hits. I wanna get my average back up where people think I can hit. Andruw Jones average people thinking Dodge City is one town where the average bad man of the West not only finds his equal, but finds himself badly handicapped. Andy Adams cities average men «1234567891011»
