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• I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

  Warren Moon

  Stink, Bowlers, Feels

  "Former NFL quarterback Warren Moon helping students give back to the community". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. June 23, 2012.

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• Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

  Beatrice Lillie

  Self, Common Sense, May

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• The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of "practice" events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure--but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary "tools," etc.

  Michael Merzenich

  Reading, Years, Practice

  "Are we getting smarter or dumber?". Interview with Stefanie Olsen, www.cnet.com. September 21, 2005.

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• Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Cutting, Years, People

  "Austan Goolsbee Talks Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2010.

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• But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer acquisition is $1,000 or more.

  Arthur Middleton Hughes

  Crazy, Acquisition, Cost

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• On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.

  Mary Schmich

  Jobs, Fiction, Done

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.35, Agate Digital

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• More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized PowerStation is presently able to produce.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Spring, Water, Energy

  Viktor Schauberger “Living Energies”, Рипол Классик

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• The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

  Frank Barron

  Photography, Creativity, Carpe Diem

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• Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.

  Eric Butterworth

  Strong, Achievement, Historical

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• Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

  Orrin Woodward

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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• It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

  Norman Lear

  Caring, People, Mind

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.

  Hosur Narasimhaiah

  Teacher, School, Inspire

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• Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average American [should be] content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.

  William Torrey Harris

  Humble, School, Thinking

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• The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV-more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.

  Shook

  Degrees, Tvs, Hours

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• Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Customers

  Seth Godin (2006). “Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas”, p.201, Penguin

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• The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity.

  Walter Russell Bowie

  Sweet, Men, Two

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• You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday.

  Tom Brady

  Friday, Sunday, Practice

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• The world is so average, it doesn't take much to be a genius, just do a little extra

  Myles Munroe

  Self Improvement, Genius, World

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• Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Power, Alcohol, Dominion

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• It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

  Del Harris

  Basketball, Team, Player

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• Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Motivational, Trying, Looks

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• Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sleep

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• I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics... Playing basketball you have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well.

  Denton Cooley

  Basketball, Sports, Thinking

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• If the envious, the defamers and the backbiters were taken out of the average church, there would be revival overnight.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Taken, Church, Would Be

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• It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Artist, Men, Differences

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.389, e-artnow

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