Quotes About Average

In my own profession, some surveys show that up to 80 percent of pastors rate their preaching skills as well above average.

In my own profession, some surveys show that up to 80 percent of pastors rate their preaching skills as well above average. Our congregants aren't so kind; 60 percent say our messages aren't so hot—rating them as average or below.

The average age of our bench is deceased.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

With the best will in the world, Sam, nobody really cares about journalists getting bumped off in Russia. Your average punter doesn't have a clue who Peter the Great is. Does he play for Liverpool? Was he knocked out in the final of Britain's Got Talent?

Like the weather, the average long-term experience in investing is never surprising, but the short-term experience is always surprising.

Only a mediocre team is always at its best

It all adds up to normality.

"One of the laws of nature, Gordon said, is that half the people have got to be below average. For a Gaussian distribution, yeah, Cooper said. Sad, though."

The modern age is the triumph of collective mediocrity.

Unions are the result of profit seekers. Unions are the way the average guy gets even with evil corporateers. The unions are godsends. The unions have a special status, because they represent the rising up of the average man against the evil corporateers and profiteers.

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income.

I'm not here to tell you what your average needs to be, but it would seem to me that one way to protect yourself, as an entrepreneur, from the dreaded average is to understand what that looks like in your industry, your business, and your personal life and take the steps to be above average.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

Minimum was valuable to McJagger, first, because he'd sold 42 percent of all the trailers in Vista Isles, getting an average of sixty thousand for the "$39,000" model through fine print and outright fraud.

Normal is the average of deviance.

I'm an absolutely normal guy.

I'm a normal guy. I'm not a chef.

But I think that I'm just a normal girl, you know.

I live a pretty normal life.

I'm just a normal person.

I'm really just a normal person.