Quotes About Average

If the average man had had his way there would probably never have been any state. Even today he resents it, classes death with taxes, and yearns for that government which governs least. If he asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an Anarchist Unphilosophical, and thinks Laws in his own case superfluous.

The average person found himself forced to choose between a scientific priesthood mumbling unintelligible pessimism, and a theological priesthood mumbling incredible hopes. ?In this situation

only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom; and in the end superior ability has its way.

Only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom.

Everything about us was entirely normal, really. We were as ordinary as anything we might come across in this world.

The only sure way to alter today's patently unequal democracy is for average Americans to mobilize politically—to break out of their political inertia and to move forcefully back into the political arena.

It turns out that the average annoyed American only needs to pull three terrible faces before she feels better.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.

Averages are useful because many traits, behaviors, and outcomes are distributed in a bell-shaped curve, with most results clustered around the middle and a much smaller group of outliers at the high and low ends.

The whole concept of data science is that the software becomes the expert, and you, as the average user, are able to understand what's going on.

To me, I feel completely, um, utterly normal. I do everything everybody else does.

I'm an utterly average, total geek.

An alternative way of expressing births is by what's called the total fertility rate: i.e., the total number of babies born to an average woman over her lifetime. For the whole world that number averages 2.5 babies; for the First World countries with the biggest economies, it varies between 1.3 and 2.0 babies (e.g., 1.9 for the U.S.). The number for Japan is only 1.27 babies, at the low end of the spectrum; South Korea and Poland are among the few countries with lower values.

I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder...I'm an average man...with a truly extraordinary wife

You're a good man." He smiled. "No, I'm an average man . . . with a truly extraordinary wife.

Did you know that ninety percent of your average household dust is composed of human epidermal matter? That's skin, to you. Perhaps this explains your sense of Amanda's omnipresence. She has left her skin behind.

I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.

No matter what, the entrepreneur must strive to be above average and, at the same time, understand what is driving those averages they are seeking to beat. Take the time to understand and test the metrics you are using, and then you can not only set the average, you can exceed it.

Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.

The average juror is not Mr. Spock. If he were, then a trial-court judge's job would be much easier. He could instruct the jury in broad strokes - instructing only as to the bare elements of the crime, perhaps - and be confident that the jury would deduce all of the finer-grained implications that must logically follow.

'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

We live very ordinary lives.