Above Average Quotes

• Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong Women, Children, Parenting

  A Prairie Home Companion (radio series) (1974 - 1987)

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• The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

  Colin Powell

  Success, Military, Winning

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Birthday, Believe

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• The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Success, Self Esteem

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• Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Average, People, Results

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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• There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

  Hal Higdon

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

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• Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it.

  William J. Clinton

  Average, Should Have, Political

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• The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.

  Morrie Brickman

  Real, Believe, Men

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• 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

  Thinking, Moral Fiber, Average

  Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.149, Oxford University Press

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• I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Beautiful, Sexy, Growing Up

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• I don't know what the average income of Muslim-Americans is, but Muslim-American immigrants of recent vintage, I bet they have a very above-average representation in professional and business occupations.

  Thomas Friedman

  Average, Vintage, Income

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• Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.

  John Paulson

  Average, Long, Done

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• The major changes that will be occurring within the new merged partnership are exciting in many ways. First, we will have the highest forecast distribution growth rate of any of the major MLPs. Second, our coverage will be above average for the same peer group with expected $1.1 billion of excess cash flow coverage through 2017 and the Access cash flows, along with our major new fee based projects continue to dramatically reduce exposure to commodity prices.

  Alan Armstrong

  Commodity Prices, Cash Flow, Average

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• Not saying I rate myself lots now, but I rate myself more because I've been exercising. I'd say a six now. Just above average. There are a lot of good-looking people out there, you see, so more than six is getting a bit cocky.

  Peter Andre

  Cocky, Exercise, Average

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Everybody thinks their website is above average.

  Matt Cutts

  Thinking, Average, Website

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• Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.

  Gary Hamel

  Average, Return, Strategy

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• We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average - are everyday speech. We don't even question the language, although the challenges we face require a different mindset.

  L. Todd Rose

  Average, Challenges, Everyday

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Are you an action-oriented, take-charge person interested in exciting new challenges? As director of a major public-sector organization, you will manage a large armed division and interface with other senior executives in a team-oriented, multinational initiative in the global marketplace. Successful candidate will have above-average oral-presentation skills

  Winston Churchill

  Senior, Team, Successful

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• She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Trust, Character, Average

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• The beauty of America is that the average person always thinks she is above average.

  Sam Levenson

  Thinking, Average, America

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• Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

  Jeff MacNelly

  Running, Ambition, Average

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• The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Average, Long

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• Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state.

  Jerry Brown

  Average, Common Sense, Cameras

  "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2003.

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• In what may as well be starkly labelled smug satisfaction, an amazing 94% [of college instructors] rate themselves as above average teachers, and 68% rank themselves in the top quarter of teaching performances.

  K. Patricia Cross

  Teacher, Teaching, College

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• The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

  Charles A. Murray

  Children, Average, Law

  "The Age of Educational Romanticism". The New Criterion, May 01, 2008.

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