Average Quotes - Page 27

• The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Reading, School, Math

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• In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Military, Army, Men

  T. E. Lawrence (2013). “Seven Pillars of Wisdom”, p.349, Black House Publishing Ltd

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• The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Greatness, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent - for every effect a perfect cause - and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Strong, Business

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.368

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• Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.

  Vicente Fox

  Government, Years, Priorities

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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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• If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

  Earl Nightingale

  Thank You, Destiny, Wonder

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• Average companies give their people something to work on. The most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.

  Simon Sinek

  Organization, People, Giving

  Simon Sinek (2009). “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action”, p.75, Penguin

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• Little minds think and talk about people.
  Average minds think and talk about things and actions.
  Great minds think and talk about ideas.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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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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• Research by Donald A. Redelmeier and Sheldon M. Singh has found that, on average, Oscar winners live nearly four years longer than nominees that don't win.

  David Brooks

  Winning, Years, Research

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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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• 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.

  Jay Leno

  Brother, Flying, Today

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• 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.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Talent, Breathe

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• The average man. The emergence of the concept.

  Adolphe Quetelet

  Men, Emergence, Concepts

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• Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

  Seth Godin

  Quitting, Loser, Exceptional

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

  Joshua Kushner

  Amazon, Lessons, Score

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• To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

  John Philip Sousa

  Mean, Mind, Corny

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Civilization, Differences

  Mark Twain Laughing 1904, #370 (p. 98)

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, Limits, Exceptional

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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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