Average Person Quotes - Page 7

• The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.

  Brian Tracy

  Jobs, Opportunity, Average

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• We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.

  Ben Silbermann

  Thinking, Average, Pinterest

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• I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

  Harvey Pekar

  Thinking, Ordinary Days, Average

  Interview with Gary Groth, classic.tcj.com. 1984.

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• If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Average, Pretentious, Persons

  "Karl Lagerfeld meets his match". Interview with Bruce LaBruce, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2011.

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• All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Average, Wish, Hazards

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2010). “The Windup Girl”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

  Tom T. Hall

  Simple, Average, Enough

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• Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Average, Pay, Comes And Goes

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• It's fun to play around... it's human nature to try to select the right horse... But for the average person, I'm more of an indexer... The predictability is so high... For 10, 15, 20 years you'll be in the 85th percentile of performance. Why would you screw it up?

  Charles R. Schwab

  Horse, Fun, Average

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• Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being and whose personality has been as mysterious and unfathomable to the man as the artist has been to the average person.

  Beatrice M. Hinkle

  Artist, Men, Average

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• In the ten years since I had run away from home...I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime.

  W. C. Fields

  Running, Home, Average

  "DVD Retro Rec: The W.C. Fields Comedy Collection" by Mark Bourne, www.mtv.com. September 29, 2008.

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• I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Average, Europe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?

  Rachel Bilson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• I probably spend more time writing than reading science fiction. I find that science-fiction literature is so reactive to all the literature that's gone before that it's sort of like a fractal. It's gone to a level of detail that the average person could not possibly follow unless you're a fan. It iterates upon many prior generations of iterations.

  James Cameron

  Reading, Writing, Average

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and turn it into a movie. There'd be way too much ground work you'd have to lay. It's OK to have detail and density, but if you rely on being a lifelong science-fiction fan to understand what the story is about, then it's not going to translate to a broader audience.

  James Cameron

  Average, Fans, Details

  "James Cameron: The ‘Avatar’ sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 20, 2010.

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• Technology makes good DJ's better, but also allows your average person to think they're a DJ, and unfortunately there's no checks and balances about people making it a career.

  Neil Armstrong

  Technology, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• Regular people don't even realize how much artists mean to them. Artists represent a lot to the average person. People listen to music all day on their iPods, so as artists, we become a real fixture in people's lives. As an artist, you can't take it personal. It's like your big brother teasing you.

  Nicki Minaj

  Brother, Real, Mean

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.

  David Starkey

  Coffee, Writing, Thinking

  Source: andreaauten.wordpress.com

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• The average person tells a few white lies.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Lying, Average, White

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• Exercising during the cold and flu season will help people stay in shape, and most likely fight off colds or reduce the number of days a person is ill. The cold season should not be an excuse for the average person to refrain from exercising - working out at the gym, a brisk walk in the park or a jog through the neighborhood.

  Michael Flynn

  Exercise, Fighting, Average

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• Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice of human sacrifice by the Aztecs and other so-called primitive peoples. How savage and barbaric such practices seem. But when a Christian or Jew comes across human sacrifice in the Bible (see Jephthah's immolation of his daughter in Judges 11:30-40), is he or she repulsed?

  Steve Allen

  Bible, Christian, Daughter

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• I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  College, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some of the downbeat pictures, in my opinion, should never be made at all. Most of them are made for personal satisfaction, to impress other actors who say "Oh, God! what a shot, what camera work!" But the average person in the audience, who bought his ticket to be entertained, doesn't see that at all. He comes out depressed.

  Doris Day

  Average, Cameras, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.

  Josh Young

  Art, Thinking, Average

  "SOUND OFF Special Interview: Josh Young Talks Solo Album, AMAZING GRACE Workshop & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. December 7, 2012.

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• It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

  Bruce Barton

  Fear, Real, Average

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• If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

  Earl Nightingale

  Thank You, Destiny, Average

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