Average Person Quotes - Page 8

• If
  you're going to be truly successful, then set yourself apart from
  everyone else. Go beyond the limits of what classifies the average
  person and be exceptional.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, Average, Limits

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• If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my potential. I had to be better than the average person to succeed.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Average, Hearing, Succeed

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

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• When you have big dreams, you’re going to have big challenges. If you were an average person you would have average problems.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Dream, Average

  Twitter post from Sep 22, 2013

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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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• By the time the average person finishes college, he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes, and exams. The right answer approach becomes deeply ingrained in our thinking. This may be fine for some mathematical problems where there is in fact only one right answer. The difficulty is that most of life isn’t this way. Life is ambiguous; there are many right answers- all depending on what you’re looking for. But if you think there is only one right answer, then you’ll stop looking as soon as you find one.

  Roger von Oech

  Life, Taken, College

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• She [Carolyn Maloney] understands the whole picture. She is comfortable with these issues 'cause she is chair of the committee, and she's dogged and will make sure the average woman and man is represented as well as making sure that our financial system stays afloat. In other words, she gets it and she has represented the financial district, but she also represents the average person and definitely the average woman.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Men, Average, Issues

  Source: www.blogher.com

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• The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Jobs, Eight, Average

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• I believe that man was created to enjoy himself, indeed, that he can claim it as his legitimate right. In fact, as long as he lives, man cannot help enjoying himself, even if he tries not... . Today the average person, when he hears the word pleasure, immediately thinks of something immoral. But nothing could be more wrong.

  Kafu Nagai

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow himself that luxury, for he has to crush the urge and remind himself of its absurdity.

  Jeffrey Lang

  Crush, Atheist, Loneliness

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• When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

  Criss Jami

  Writing, Creativity, Average

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• Narcissistic personalities usually do do better than you and me and the average person. We've always seen it in the office. The person who speaks up more in meetings, the person who's charismatic, who can sell an idea with more excitement and energy.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Ideas, Average, Office

  Source: www.dinnerpartydownload.org

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• When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Financial Education, Average

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2017

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• The issues which mattered to me as an activist, mainly things like prison reform and AIDS, have less of a chance of getting covered on my show than things I don't have a personal interest in. It's because I don't trust my antenna about being a good storyteller on those subjects, because I know a lot and therefore lose touch with what the average person might find interesting about them.

  Rachel Maddow

  Average, Issues, Interesting

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins with samadhi. This is an awesome thought, I realize, for the average person who meditates, that it could begin with samadhi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Average, Stopping, Realizing

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• Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person.

  Frank X. Barron

  Home, Average, Symbolism

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• I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving Up, Average, Problem

  Peter A. Bucky, Albert Einstein, Allen G. Weakland (1992). “The private Albert Einstein”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding

  Kanye West

  Average, Wonder, Outstanding

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• Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.

  Laura Lippman

  Ignorance, Writing, Thinking

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• The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don't necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average person.

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Work, Average

  Brian Tracy (2007). “Time Power: A Proven System for Getting More Done in Less Time Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.157, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

  Frank Barron

  Photography, Creativity, Carpe Diem

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• We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

  Ben Silbermann

  Average, Trying, Use

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• How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.

  Criss Jami

  Lonely, Loneliness, Believe

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.115, Criss Jami

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• For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  War, Average, World

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books

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• Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.

  William J. Brennan

  Taken, Average, Law

  Roth v. United States (1957)

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• The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Confidence, Average, Ideas

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