Average Quotes

“...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.”
― Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

“Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.”
― Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

“I am not more gifted than the average human being. If you know anything about history, you would know that is so--what hard times I had in studying and the fact that I do not have a memory like some other people do… I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up on a problem until I have found the proper solution. This is one of my greatest satisfactions in life--solving problems--and the harder they are, the more satisfaction do I get out of them. Maybe you could consider me a bit more patient in continuing with my problem than is the average human being. Now, if you understand what I have just told you, you see that it is not a matter of being more gifted but a matter of being more curious and maybe more patient until you solve a problem.”
― Albert Einstein

“By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.”
― Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

“To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.”
― Shane Koyczan

“If you are working in a team, do not expect an outcome of your excellence. It will be an average of all of the team members.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“I don't think there's too much normal out there anymore. Though there's still plenty of average to go around.”
― John David Anderson, Standard Hero Behavior

“Average is always a safe choice, and it is the most dangerous choice you can make.”
― Erwin Raphael McManus, The Last Arrow: Save Nothing for the Next Life

“A part of her wanted to stop pushing herself, stop feeling compelled to rise to the occasion of being her best self. She wanted to figure out how to be her average self without feeling like a loser.”
― Katherine Morgan Schafler, The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

“The mythology of freedom under capitalism for the average person is a con job.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“I am remarkably unremarkable at sports, at the arts, at academics.”
― Tim Federle, Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories

“most people say I will be there for you , most people say don't lose hope ,most people say I will always love you in your darkest days, don't be the most people , because they are not there when you need them , they are there when they need you .”
― Nalin Dhiman

“The exceptional person sees it as a chance to demonstrate, if only to himself, the power of his will. He takes pride in doing things average people will not do. And pride is one of the rewards that reinforces a good habit.”
― Bob Rotella, How Champions Think: In Sports and in Life

“Average is crowded. There's room at the top. Keep climbing.”
― Richie Norton, Résumés Are Dead and What to Do About It

“Averages are great for monitoring but terrible for diagnosis.”
― Dan Heath, Reset: How to Change What's Not Working

“You’re not born to be an average; you’re not born to be just another name people keep in their phone. You’re an extraordinary creation of nature, you’re born to do something which nobody else can. Believe that.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“The most robust evidence indicates that this wisdom-of-crowds principle holds when forecasts are made independently before being averaged together. In a true betting market (including the stock market), people can and do react to one another’s behavior.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't

“The sensual bar has dropped so low. How do we still even have the audacity to claim love, for real.”
― Lebo Grand

“The sensual bar has dropped so low. How do we still even have the audacity to claim love, for real?”
― Lebo Grand

“The sensual bar has dropped so low. How do we still even have the audacity to claim love or that we are alive, for real?”
― Lebo Grand

“The sensual bar has dropped so low. How do we still even have the audacity to claim love or that we are alive for that matter?”
― Lebo Grand

“Average people plus an awesome God equals amazing opportunities.”
― Dwayne Morris, Chasing Donkeys: When God Redirects Your Steps

“Average is boring and that's not going to be me.”
― Madiha Ahmed

“We will all be average in some things, above average in others, and below average in still others. But to aspire to be average is another thing entirely.”
― Shawn Davis, The Talk: A Young Person's Guide to Life's Big Questions

“I'm proving to be the one thing my mother hates- average.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“If an average Person uses foreign Words, ask him to define them.”
― Sino Melo

“Early in the speech, when Sanzite had been describing the impressive gains in average income, a man had stood up and shouted “What About the Median?” That man had been quickly suppressed, and Sanzite had continued.

A few minutes later, Sanzite had moved on to the extraordinary increases in average life expectancy, when dozens of people began the chant. “What about the Median? What about the Median? What about the Median?” Clearly the screening process for attendees had massively failed.

The infoterrorists had somehow brought in materials to cement themselves to the fixed theater chairs, so removing them was slow.

And worst of all had been Sanzite’s mistake. “Seems everybody’s a statistician these days,” he quipped into the live microphone, and inadvertently coined the name of a new movement.

The version seen by over ninety nine percent of viewers was sanitized, but the damage had been done. Recordings of Sanzite’s remark, with the chant in the background, still surfaced from time to time.”
― James R. Wells, The Great Symmetry

“You’re not crazy — you’re just carrying purpose that don’t fit in average pockets!”
― Dr. Angela L. Hood