Law Of Averages Quotes

• You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 14, 2017

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• There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Graduation, Business

  Commencement address in Harvard, news.harvard.edu. May 30, 2013.

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• It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.

  Bruce Lee

  Average, Law

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.114, Tuttle Publishing

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• There are just four kinds of bets. There are good bets, bad bets, bets that you win, and bets that you lose. Winning a bad bet can be the most dangerous outcome of all, because a success of that kind can encourage you to take more bad bets in the future, when the odds will be running against you. You can also lose a good bet no matter how sound the underlying proposition, but if you keep placing good bets, over time, the law of averages will be working for you.

  Larry Hite

  Success, Running, Winning

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• You know the law of averages says:
  Anything will happen that can

  Steve Goodman

  Average, Law, Say Anything

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• Don't leave it to the law of averages to make you break even.

  Mike Caro

  Average, Law, Break Even

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• In cricket, as in no other game, a great master may well go back to the pavilion scoreless.... In no other game does the law of averages get to work so potently, so mysteriously.

  Neville Cardus

  Baseball, Average, Law

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• I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

  Bill Mauldin

  Funny, Motivation, Science

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• It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Graduation, Moving, Fall

  Oprah Winfrey’s Commencement address at Harvard University, Сambridge, Massachusetts, news.harvard.edu. May 30, 2013.

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• Especially with sports cars, when you have got so many cars on the track with various degrees of competitiveness, then something will happen. It's the nature of racing, the law of averages. If you want to be a front-runner then you are going to have to push very hard, and collisions can happen.

  Allan McNish

  Sports, Average, Law

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• The circling horse was an oblique warning that i would repeat the same mistake eternally. Would the law of averages allow it? Can anything continue without change? Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.

  Pete Townshend

  Horse, Mistake, Average

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• Psycho? The woman's senile. We had to stop at about thirty gas stations on the way over here. Finally I got tired of getting out of the car and showing her which was the Men's and which was the Women's, so I let her pick them herself. I worked out a system. The law of averages. I laid money on her and she came out about fifty-fifty.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Tired, Men, Average

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.284, LSU Press

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• For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? To the designer of the camera? to the finger on the button? to the law of averages?

  Gore Vidal

  Photography, Art, Law

  Gore Vidal (1982). “The second American revolution and other essays (1976-1982)”, Random House Inc

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• I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Average, Law, Lucky

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