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• The greatest change to go from average to fortune is not so much an increase in knowledge, but rather, a change in our emotions about achieving our goals.

  Jim Rohn

  Goal, Emotion, Achieve

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• There are no prizes for average performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Performances, Prize

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• If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Organization, Marketing

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• A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime.

  Billy Graham

  Impact, Years, People

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• When the average American consumes 43 times as much as the average African, we've got to think that consumption is an issue. It's not just about population.

  Jason W Clay

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

  Ernst Mach

  Struggle, Men, Desire

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• As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something.

  Trevor Baylis

  Long, Perception

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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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• Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Real, Believe, Years

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• On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.

  Nia Vardalos

  Wedding, Real, Greek

  "Dear Nia Vardalos, I Think You're Pretty Much Fabulous" by Sarah Jio, www.glamour.com. June 15, 2009.

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• Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making.

  Richard Louv

  Art, Nature, Math

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.162, Atlantic Books Ltd

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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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• Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

  George Mikes

  Vocabulary, Use, Fifty

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• It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.

  Al McGuire

  Team, Men, Play

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• The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Prayer, Believe, Men

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1988). “Against Racism: Unpublished Essays, Papers, Addresses, 1887-1961”, p.84, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Children, Responsibility, Hands

  Post-re-election interview with Garnett D. Horner, The Washington Star-News (p. 1), November 9, 1972.

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• One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.

  Clayton Christensen

  Years, Physicians, Quarters

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• You know the law of averages says:
  Anything will happen that can

  Steve Goodman

  Law, Say Anything, Happens

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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

  Hearing, Succeed, Lost

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

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• Believing in myself and not to be afraid of taking any risks. I have to be better than the average person to succeed. That’s why I chose bodybuilding. If I became a world champion, if I could win admiration from my peers, I could do anything.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Believe, Bodybuilding, Winning

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• Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.

  Grace Slick

  Boys, Connections, Silent

  Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan (2008). “Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• I haven't seen much correlation between good trading and intelligence. Some outstanding traders are quite intelligent, but a few aren't. Many outstanding intelligent people are horrible traders. Average intelligence is enough. Beyond that, emotional makeup is more important.

  William Eckhardt

  Intelligent, Makeup, Emotional

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• The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Life, Real, Learning

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• Apart from the fact that I can move the bike fast, I am basically Joe Average.

  Jens Voigt

  Moving, Facts, Bike

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• Doctors can be replaced by software – 80% of them can. I’d much rather have a good machine learning system diagnose my disease than the median or average doctor.

  Vinod Khosla

  Doctors, Machines, Disease

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