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• They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo.

  Michio Kaku

  Volunteer, Figures, Voodoo

  "Nuclear-powered NASA craft to zoom by Earth on Tuesday". www.cnn.com. August 16, 1999.

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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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• In the 10 cities with the nation's highest obesity rates, the direct costs connected with obesity and obesity-related diseases are roughly $50 million per 100,000 residents. And if these 10 cities just cut their obesity rates down to the national average, all added up they combine to save nearly $500 million in healthcare costs each year.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Cutting, Cities

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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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• If you think you’re average, then you’ll be average. If you think you’re ordinary, then you’ll live ordinary. The truth is, there is nothing ordinary about you. You have something to offer that nobody else can offer.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, Ordinary, Truth Is

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• Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Ideas, People, Mind

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• The average American of today is intellectually so far removed from his forbears that instead of regarding government with apprehension, he is more likely to regard it as a virtual parent, concerned only with protecting and helping him

  George Reisman

  Government, Parent, Today

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• The average American watches more than four hours of television per day. What would happen if we spent more time developing our talents than watching others develop theirs?

  John Bytheway

  Watches, Television, Four

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• The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Country, Book, Fall

  "Bradbury Still Believes In Heat Of `Fahrenheit 451'" by Misha Berson, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. March 12, 1993.

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• When we teach kids to follow the rules that there’s only one right answer & to avoid mistakes at all costs, we’re resigning them to average.

  Josh Linkner

  Mistake, Kids, Cost

  Twitter post from May 07, 2012

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• Don’t tolerate any form of average. Don’t accept Dis-excellence. Don’t stand for mediocre. If you’re going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.

  Robin Sharma

  Excellence, Settling, Accepting

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• People need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

  Chris Farley

  People, Laughing, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whatever person kids relate to the most, I want them to call me that. Sp of Hannah's more who they find their inspiration in, call me Hannah. If they're more an average girl who wants to blend in with everybody else, then call me Miley.

  Miley Cyrus

  Girl, Inspiration, Kids

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• The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.

  Arianna Huffington

  Smartphones, Half, Six

  Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.64, Harmony

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• What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

  Regis Philbin

  Men, Wonderful, Tall

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• We believe, and so suggested a few years ago, that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy; that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the average temperate drinker. These allergic types can never safely use alcohol in any form at all; and once having formed the habit and found they cannot break it, once having lost their self confidence, their reliance upon things human, their problems pile up on them and become astonishingly difficult to solve.

  William Duncan Silkworth

  Believe, Recovery, Self Confidence

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• When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Player

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• After adjusting for inflation, the average income of the top 5% of households grew by 38% from 1989 to 2013. …By comparison, the average real income of the other 95% of households grew less than 10%.

  Janet Yellen

  Real, Income, Adjusting

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• The average net worth of the lower half of the distribution, representing 62 million households, was $11,000 in 2013. About one-fourth of these families reported zero wealth or negative net worth, and a significant fraction of those said they were "underwater" on their home mortgages, owing more than the value of the home. This $11,000 average is 50 percent lower than the average wealth of the lower half of families in 1989, adjusted for inflation.

  Janet Yellen

  Zero, Home, Negative

  Janet Yellen's Speech At the Conference on Economic Opportunity and Inequality at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston in Boston, Massachusetts, www.federalreserve.gov. October 17, 2014.

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• Thus the creative genius may be at once nave and knowledgeable, being at home equally to primitive symbolism and to rigorous logic. He is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive and more constructive, occasionally crazier and yet adamantly saner, than the average person.

  Frank X. Barron

  Home, Symbolism, Creative

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• Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

  Garrison Wynn

  Stupid, Rest Of Your Life, Brilliant

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• As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, '...requires seven to ten years, and costs each applicant an average of $70 million.'

  Orrin Hatch

  Wall, Dark, Fda

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