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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

  Satchel Paige

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Sports

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• The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Work Ethic, Energy, Ethics

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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, Problem, Curious

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

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• The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.

  Martha Beck

  Children, Laughing, Adults

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• What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

  Sigmund Freud

  Missing You, Wisdom, Children

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• We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Cheer Up, Humility

  "Der Spiegel", October 17, 1988.

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• Remember, half the people you know are below average.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  People, Hard Work Pays Off, Half

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• Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.

  Henry Thomas Buckle

  Men, Order, Talking

  "Haud Immemor: Reminiscences of Legal and Social Life in Edinburgh and London, 1850-1900". Book by Charles Stewart, p. 33, 1901.

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• Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

  Colin Wilson

  Rain, Men, Cows

  "Another Kind of Life; Victorian Giants review - birth of the outsider" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2018.

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• The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

  Andy Rooney

  Hate, Army, Men

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.89, PublicAffairs

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• Refuse to be average.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Inspirational, Editors, Excellence

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• It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  World, Files

  Mary Augusta Ward (2002). “Marcella”, p.553, Broadview Press

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• If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Nobel, Persons, Prize

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.342, Princeton University Press

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• The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

  E. W. Howe

  Running, Men, Risk

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• On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, People, Design

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• Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Creativity, Practice, Skills

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• It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

  Edward de Bono

  Marriage, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals,' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

  Peter Drucker

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.310, Routledge

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• The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Crazy, Struggle

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• Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Leadership, Top Management, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Success, Self Esteem

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• I always feel like it's two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that's step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

  J. Cole

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

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