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• What does it mean to be healthy? You may think that being healthy means that you are not sick, but being healthy is far more than that. If you feel okay, or average, or nothing much at all, you are not healthy.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Mean, Thinking

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• The average Christian pays more in interest than he gives to the Lord's work. In a church of 100 families 37 will give nothing.

  Larry Burkett

  Christian, Giving, Church

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• Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.

  Patrick Geddes

  Successful, Simple, Opposites

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• I would bet that the average teenager in this country has not used the word 'wisdom' in the past year

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Teenager, Past

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• Grand Haven will challenge the skilled player yet, because of some width to the holes, it also will be a fun course that the average player can enjoy.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Fun, Player, Challenges

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• So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'

  Allen Ginsberg

  Nice, Jail, Eight

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• Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Fall, Views, Intellectual

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.163, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

  Ron Chernow

  Successful, Past, Circles

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  All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.

  Michael Jordan

  Wanted

  Michael Jordan (2012). “Driven from Within”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Australia

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• The average man. The emergence of the concept.

  Adolphe Quetelet

  Men, Emergence, Concepts

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• 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.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Mean, Funeral, Eulogy

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• Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

  Jack Welch

  Phenomenon, Performers

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• Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average.

  Buddy Rich

  Sound, Band, Drummer

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• 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.

  Austin Kleon

  Thinking, Numbers, Ideas

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.13, Workman Publishing

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• The average call me obsessed, the successful call me for advice.

  Grant Cardone

  Successful, Advice, Obsessed

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Feb 20, 2017

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• The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100.

  Joshua Kushner

  Amazon, Lessons, Score

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• 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.

  Philip Wylie

  Men, Rome, Civilization

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• 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.

  Robin Boyd

  Men, Australia, Goal

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• If there were no limitations or consequences, what would your perfect average day look like?

  Bob Proctor

  Perfect, Looks, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Sep 04, 2013

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• You ain't average! But you know what? You're playing small because it's easier to be average.

  Eric Thomas

  Easier, Knows

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• Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.

  Jim Rohn

  Successful, People, Looks

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 31, 2015

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• Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Enemy, Surrender, Danger

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• Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

  Richard Koch

  Effort, Celebrate, Exceptional

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less”, p.39, Crown Business

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• Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

  Chip Kelly

  Lasts, Halls, Last Time

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