Quotes About Average

I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere, but here they are much more good-for-nothing and irresponsible than elsewhere.

Numerous studies of human cognition have come to parallel conclusions: the human brain can divide random stimuli into about six or seven different categories. For example, the average person can distinguish between about six different musical notes before getting confused.

Average is common. Excellence is rare.

Average people give up on their dreams. Don't be like average people.

Personal Brand Focus: Immediately you try to reach the masses with your brand you dilute your brand's power and falls into the average zone. You cease to be remarkable

Since the invention of TV, the average night's sleep has gone down by two hours.

Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average.

A recent study shows that the average length of tenancy for a typical customer is 11 months, and 24 months for the average commercial tenant.

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.

A massificação procura baixar a qualidade artística para a altura do gosto médio. Em arte, o gosto médio é mais prejudicial do que o mau gosto... Nunca vi um gênio com gosto médio.

The only way not to be controversial is to be average and ordinary. They just call me anything but average and ordinary.

Montana is perfect for telecommuting because of the quality of life, because our housing prices in most communities are below the national average.

The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.

I'm always much more inspired by random people on the street. I live down by NYU and The New School, and I'd almost say close your eyes and pull a student out, and they're gonna be a little bit cooler than the average celebrity.

So what on Earth there isn't to like about New York? I don't know. But what you do also have is a load of very ordinary restaurants which you make a terrible fuss about which are really only very average. Which is fine. One doesn't go to New York for the food.

I was a pretty average golfer.

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.

Maybe there is a sort of law of conservation of misery that insures an average quantum value of unhappiness for every human being, and all we can really do is spread it in one direction or another?

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

That which you term moderation, I call mediocrity

What surprises me most when surveying the great destinies of man is always seeing before me the opposite of what Darwin and his school see or want to see today: selection in favor of the stronger, in favor of those who have come off better, the progress of the species. The very opposite is quite palpably the case: the elimination of the strokes of luck, the uselessness of the better-constituted types, the inevitable domination achieved by the average, even below-average types.