Quotes About Average

I'm a very normal person with a very even keel.

In my real life I'm a very normal person.

Beige curtains... there's nothing wrong with them. You're not like, 'Ew, gross! Beige curtains!' You just don't notice them either way. They're just, like, fine.

There are other advantages, continued the child. For instance, if one rat were cornered by nine cats, on the average, each cat would be ten percent rat and the rat would be ninety percent cat. If you happened to be a rat, you can see how much nicer it would make things.

Jeg er bare en ganske alminnelig mann som ikke kan forandre noe som helst jeg

Every individual should, by nature, have his extraordinary points. But nowadays, you may look for them with a microscope, they are so worn-down by the regular machine-friction of our average and mechanical days.

The agents that the Bureau could command varied all the way from unselfish philanthropists to narrow-minded busy- bodies and thieves; and even though it be true that the aver- age was far better than the worst, it was the occasional fly that helped spoil the ointment.

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.

The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m.

Indeed, it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. There are moments when his cogitations are relatively more respectable than usual, but even at their climaxes they never reach anything properly describable as the level of serious thought. The mental activity of such people is only a mounting of clichés.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.

Hume's notion that we are nothing but a bundle of sensations succeeding one another with inconceivable rapidity, that any coherent sense of personhood is hence sort of overarching fiction, a state of affairs that may or may not be the case on average.

In an emergency, one often learns that one's companions can be of even less help in extraordinary circumstances than they are during an average evening.

He was such a sneaky and revolting person that the eldest Baudelaire simply could not accept that his scheme was only as evil as the average gym class.

A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.

Gilbert computed that the average IQ for the twenty-one Nazi defendants, with a high of 143 and a low of 106, was 128—falling in the superior to very superior range of intellectual abilities. (For purposes of comparison, the average IQ is 100; that of college graduates is 118; that of doctoral students is 125.)

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

Let me thank the 2 1/2 million Americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 million individual campaign contributions. Anyone know what that average contribution was? That's right, $27.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

I looked up at my mom, and I was like, 'Well, Mom, uh, when you really think about it, C's aren't really that bad. C's are average.' And I've never seen my mom so upset, to this day. I just saw this flash of fire in her eyes, and she yelled, 'Average? You are never allowed to be average, because you look like me.'

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

Critics only speak up when they see someone shining. Average work doesn't threaten them.

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.