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• Nothing. There's nothing you can do. As soon as you do something you'll no-longer be average.

  Julian Assange

  Can Do

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• The QSM Software Almanac is an invaluable resource. It establishes a norm for software projects, including best of class, worst of class and averages. In addition, it profiles the state of the art of software construction and enhancement. I wish I'd had this wonderful reference book years ago.

  Tom DeMarco

  Art, Book, Years

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• The whole point is, give me a break with the standards. You go to the average jazz label and suggest a record and they want to know which standards you're going to play. I'm saying let's break the formula.

  Branford Marsalis

  Play, Giving, Labels

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• There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius. But the average person who wins what we call success is not a genius. That person is a man or woman who has merely the ordinary qualities that they share with their fellows, but has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Perseverance, Men

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• I don't choose to be a common man. I want to be better tomorrow than today. And through a commitment to work and discipline, but mostly hard work. I'll be a little more content, and a little different from the average guy.

  Jay Robinson

  Hard Work, Commitment, Wrestling

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• Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status.

  Jewel

  Struggle, Men, Eight

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• It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Men, Wicked

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.115, Taylor Trade Publications

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• I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.

  Steve Jobs

  Success, People, Fifty

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• Never settle for average.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Never Settle, Settling

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The average woman falls in love seven times a year. Only six are with shoes.

  Kenneth Cole

  Falling In Love, Years, Shoes

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• Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.

  Stella Adler

  Sweet, Nice, Needs

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.226, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their heads. The few friends the forest had were spoken of, when they were spoken of at all, as impractical theorists, fanatics, or "denudatics," more or less touched in the head. What talk there was about forest protection was no more to the average American that the buzzing of a mosquito, and just about as irritating.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Ideas, Yield, Tree

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• The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Trying, Negative

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (1993). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year”, Touchstone

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• I think a smart woman can sell the average man anything.

  Leo Burnett

  Smart, Men, Thinking

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• Average Americans are going to win this, not me. And not just your organization, not just the providers of health care, but the American people are going to cause this to happen. But they have to keep sending those cards and letters.

  Charlie Norwood

  Winning, Organization, People

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• When you go to bat as many times as I do, you're bound to get a good average. That's why I keep my projects diversified.

  Walt Disney

  Bats, Projects, Bounds

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• The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it's at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you're in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off.

  Steve Jobs

  Boys, Differences, People

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• The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Confidence, Ideas, Trouble

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• Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.

  Buffalo Bill

  Horse, Three, Fifteen

  Buffalo Bill (1920). “An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill”, New York, Cosmopolitan book corporation

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• The average woman today is almost completely out of touch with her own power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Today

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• I think I average one good sulk a week.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Thinking, Week

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• Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people the churches will be shut up and a new order of things [will] begin.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Order, People

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 77), March 6, 1995.

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• I think what separates a superstar from the average ballplayer is that he concentrates just a little bit longer.

  Hank Aaron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.

  Mike Tyson

  Adversity, Mma, Refuse

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• At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I stumbled onto something that was bigger, different than anything I had ever imagined, which was actually being involved with other people. I just don't live the average artist's life.

  El-P

  Ambition, Artist, People

  Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. May 8, 2007.

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