Average Quotes - page 6

The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good. (Brian Tracy)
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were. View quote
Francis Quarles
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The eye of perfected friendship with God is aware of deeper dimensions of reality, to which the eyes of the average man and the average Christian are not yet opened. View quote
Josef Pieper
The average voter out there understands that the next president is going to have to be prepared to immediately step in without hesitation and end our involvement in Iraq. It's very difficult to figure out how to move on to broader foreign policy concerns without fixing Iraq first. View quote
Joe Biden
The average man don't like trouble and danger. View quote
Mark Twain
There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it. View quote
Mark Twain
You renew yourself every day. Sometimes you're successful, sometimes your not, but it's the average that counts. View quote
Satya Nadella
Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical” state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us. View quote
Nyanaponika Thera
Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is at the same time a training in boldness. ... It demands from us the boldness implied in the resolve to regard the accepted views as mere opinions, or to regard the average opinions as extreme opinions which are at least as likely to be wrong as the most strange or least popular opinions. View quote
Leo Strauss
A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man. (Aldous Huxley)
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. View quote
Peter Drucker
If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music, they just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male. View quote
Kurt Cobain
The average man won't really do a day's work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it. View quote
Henry Ford
But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress. View quote
Nikola Tesla
If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences. View quote
Larry Wall
Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude. View quote
Fred Brooks
Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists. View quote
John McCarthy (computer scientist)
When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality. (Paul Goodman)
Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves. ... Their choices and inventions are rarely charming, usually stupid, and often disastrous; we cannot expect average kids to deviate with genius. But on the other hand, the young men who conform to the dominant society become for the most part apathetic, disappointed, cynical and wasted. View quote
Paul Goodman
The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual. View quote
Richard Nixon
One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke