Quotes about Average

I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely "normal" life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more--much, much more.

But here there is another layer that tends to obscure the underlying reality. In a company, the work you do is averaged together with a lot of other people's.

If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

Full participation in the life of God's Kingdom and in the vivid companionship of Christ comes to us only through appropriate exercise in the disciplines for life in the spirit. Those disciplines alone can become for average Christians the conditions upon which the spiritual life is made indubitably real.

Any theory based on experience is necessarily statistical; that is to say, it formulates an ideal average which abolishes all exceptions at either end of the scale and replaces them by an abstract mean.

It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.

You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.

Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

If we teach only the findings and products of science — no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be — without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?

Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day.