Quotes About Average

I am just like all the jerks and idiots you know. I am just a guy that watches sports all day.

People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.

Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special.

I actually feel like comic book movies need to be better than your average movie.

I love playing the common man.

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.

The average person that lives in Sydney, if they want to buy a house in Sydney, that shouldn't be out of reach for them.

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.

Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.

The lesson we learn from Tables 2-2 and 2-3 is that higher volatility of returns leads to lower compounded returns and vice versa. Accordingly, any strategy that lowers the return volatility of the portfolio without lowering the simple average return will increase the compounded return.

Volatility creates lower returns and thus is itself a risk. If you can reduce the volatility in a portfolio, then the compounded return moves higher, closer to the simple average return of the weighted investments in the portfolio. This is how lower portfolio price volatility increases portfolio return over time.

professional money managers perform no better than simple market averages

She wore a pendent - a glittering D - possibly her initial, or her grade average.

According to a recent condom-company survey, the average Hungarian has sex 131 times a year (behind only France and Greece), making them Europe's third-greatest liars.

he was not a person to whom things simply happened. His life had been lived in some kind of neutral gear, he had never broken a limb, never been stung by a bee, never been close to love or death. He had never strived for greatness, and his reward had been a small life.

Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel. Huge portions of what is loosely termed the squirrel brain are given over to one thought: food. The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat .

It's hard to have a relationship in this business...it's gonna take a very special woman...or a bunch of average ones.

The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available to the average person. Without that restructuring the good will that holds society together will be slowly dissipated. It is that sense of futility which permeates the present series of protests and dissents. Where there is a persistent sense of futility, there is violence; and that is where we are today.

Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. The average citizen should be content with their humble role in life.

Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. ... The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

In an average life lived by a relatively average soul, what else remains but singular moments of astonishingly framed light?