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• I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely 'normal' life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more - much, much more.

  Melody Carlson

  New Day, Hopeful, Ordinary

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• To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

  Shane Koyczan

  Discovery, Deep Thought, Firsts

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2013

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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, Challenges

  Twitter post from Sep 22, 2013

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• A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Doctors, Medicine

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.137, Univ of California Press

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• Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

  Brian Tracy

  Blessing, Opportunity, Greatness

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• The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.

  Seth Godin

  Winning, Settling, Bigs

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• The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.

  Bernard Williams

  Father, Men, Pirate

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• We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

  Jane Fonda

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

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• The average well-being of our societies is not dependent any longer on national income and economic growth. ... But the differences between us and where we are in relation to each other now matter very much.

  Richard G. Wilkinson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Differences

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• Today, the average Korean works a thousand hours more a year than the average German. A thousand. ... That is the end of the Great Divergence.

  Niall Ferguson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Years

  "The 6 killer apps of prosperity". Ted conference, www.ted.com. 2011.

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• It takes an average of three hours after the first symptoms of a heart attack are recognized by the patient, before that patient arrives at an emergency room. Symptoms are often denied by the patient - particularly us men, because we are very brave.

  Robert Fischell

  Heart, Men, Brave

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• Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the comfort of the average workman and citizen.

  Thomas Adams

  Home, Mean, Cities

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• The great sin of the average Christian is ignorance of the word of God.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Christian, Ignorance, Sin

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• Someone should keep reminding Mr. Average Man that he was born free, divine, strong; uncrushable by fate, society, or hell itself; and that he is a child of God, equal heir to all the bounties of God; and that goodness is riches, kindness is power, and freedom is glory. Above all, every man is born with an inner capacity to take him as far as his imagination can dream or envision-providing he is free to dream and envision.

  Frank Capra

  Dream, Strong, Children

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• My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life.

  Max Beckmann

  Art, Fairy Tale, Sleepy

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• The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.

  Harry Callahan

  Writing, Differences, Cameras

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• For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?

  Daniel Suarez

  Bmw, Two, America

  Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.5, Penguin

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• Successful people do what others know they should do but will not. To become a success, or just be more successful, you will do what average, less-motivated people will not.

  Chalene Johnson

  Successful, People, Motivated

  Chalene Johnson (2012). “Push (Enhanced Edition): 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!”, p.13, Rodale

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• Advising the average person to not concern herself with calories but instead to pay attention to hunger triggers and eating foods rick in nutrients--well, it's a wonderful concept. I also love the thought of unicorns jumping over cotton candy rainbows. I'm even considering taking up basketball to see if it makes me taller. Come on already! Suggesting that someone who struggles with his weight does not need to think about calories is as risky as suggesting you not look at price tags the next time you're in the market for a car.

  Chalene Johnson

  Love, Basketball, Struggle

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• It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Baby, Six Months, Weight

  Ina May Gaskin (2009). “Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding: From the Nation's Leading Midwife”, p.109, Bantam

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• The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track or even your grade point average - though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you have touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.

  R. J. Palacio

  Running, Years, Numbers

  "Wonder". Book by R. J. Palacio, February 14, 2012.

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• Uber is efficiency with elegance on top. That’s why I buy an iPhone instead of an average cell phone, why I go to a nice restaurant and pay a little bit more. It’s for the experience.

  Travis Kalanick

  Nice, Iphone, Phones

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• Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible.

  Seth Godin

  Safe, Invisible, Feels

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.42, Penguin

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• I'm talking about psychic powers coming down to the everyday, average person. We're able to do things that are emerging. We're slowly beginning to realize that whatever you think and feel can manifest directly in the outer world.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Thinking, Talking, Psychics

  Source: lovinglifeonearth.wordpress.com

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• The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

  Kabir Bedi

  Ideas, Scene, Englishmen

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