They say that most airline seats on planes today are meant for 170-pound passengers. The last time the average American weighed 170 pounds, the Wright Brothers were flying the plane.
You can have average talent, but when God breathes on your life, you will go further than people that have great talent. Don't talk yourself out of it.
I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.
The average man. The emergence of the concept.
Surveys show that the #1 fear of Americans is public speaking. #2 is death. That means that at a funeral, the average American would rather be in the casket than doing the eulogy.
Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.
There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income. I think the same thing is true of idea incomes. You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.
The average call me obsessed, the successful call me for advice.
The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100.
To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
A few suits of clothes, some money in the bank, and a new kind of fear constitute the main differences between the average American today and the hairy men with clubs who accompanied Attila to the city of Rome.
Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an extent the faces of Australians. Australia is the small house. Ownership of one in a fenced allotment is as inevitable and unquestionable a goal of the average Australian as marriage.
There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing.
Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today's television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago.
They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.
If there were no limitations or consequences, what would your perfect average day look like?
You ain't average! But you know what? You're playing small because it's easier to be average.
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.
Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.
Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency of native endowment. Work makes it possible for the average to approach genius. What we may lack in aptitude, we can make up for in performance. . . .
When the average child is now spending nearly eight hours a day in front of some kind of screen, many of their opinions and preferences are being shaped by the marketing campaigns you all create. And that’s where the problem comes in.. ... And I’m here today with one simple request - and that is to do even more and move even faster to market responsibly to our kids.
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