Quotes About Average

For practical purposes, I think the way to get the most out of celestial navigation can be stated in five rules. 1. Take five and average. 2. Non decimalis carborundum. (Don't drown in the decimals.) 3. Keep your altitudes between 10° and 70°. 4. Use a calculator for sight reduction from your DR. 5. Don't pass up a sight because it doesn't fit the rules.

There's nothing wrong with it. It's just not particularly fabulous.

Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.

I was just average, I'm afraid. Too dreamy. After school,

Becka might have been average in L.A., but average in L.A. is Queen of Mars in the visiting room of a federal penitentiary in North Carolina.

I glory in the emotionally commonplace

The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples.

With every product, the delta between the brand and the reality determines its power over the minds of consumers, and with Trump, that delta is always broad. If Trump said it was the best, it was average. If he said something was the finest, it typically included a spray-painted gold veneer.

little too undistinguished, a little

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.

I prize being just a normal dude that wakes up, goes to work, comes home to his wife - like, quite boring.

I'll watch golf while I work out. I'm your average golf fan.

The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the ideas; perhaps that is why a genius usually hates his disciples.

I am only an average man but by George I work harder at it than the average man.

I was a decent student but not a great student.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

The people who deserve and need subsidies are those who are on average incomes and less.

The height of mediocrity is still low.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Reversion to the mean is the iron rule of the financial markets.

So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.

Whenever I read statistical reports, I try to imagine my unfortunate contemporary, the Average Person, who, according to these reports, has 0.66 children, 0.032 cars, and 0.046 TVs.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.