Average Quotes - page 7

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm. (Peter Straub)
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in. View quote
Paul J. Meyer
To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles. View quote
Paul J. H. Schoemaker
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. View quote
Robert H. Schuller
On a normal novel, I would like to get 2,000 to 2,500 words done in a day; I average 10,000 words a week, and then there's a day for planning. With the historical ones, it's a lot harder because you have to stop and double-check facts. View quote
Sarah Pinborough
Properly measured, the average actively managed dollar must underperform the average passively managed dollar, net of costs. Empirical analyses that appear to refute this principle are guilty of improper measurement. View quote
William Forsyth Sharpe
The average dog has one request to all humankind. Love me. View quote
Helen Exley
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young. View quote
Helen Fisher
Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person. View quote
Herbie Hancock
I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess. View quote
Shaquille O'Neal
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss other people. Life's too short to worry about what other people do or don't do. Tend your own backyard, not theirs, because yours is the one you have to live in. (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it's not. And so I think you've got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid's head that's creating a lot of havoc out there. View quote
Sean Covey
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war. View quote
Ben Barnes
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. View quote
Bill Cosby
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. View quote
George Saunders
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day. View quote
Jerzy Kosinski
For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. View quote
Kevin Mitnick
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for. View quote
Loretta Young
Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life. View quote
Joyce Meyer
The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management. View quote
Douglas McGregor
The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference. (Herbert N. Casson)
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average. View quote
James C. Collins
If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average. View quote
James C. Collins
I'm an average, everyday girl... View quote
Chloe Grace Moretz
If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average. View quote
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