Average Quotes - Page 6

I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

I tell people not to do their best. I don't know when that started. Quite a while ago. Because I . . . when they're doing their best I don't get their best. So I try to persuade them to be average. Because if you're wonderful and you're average, you're still wonderful. If you're a bad improviser and you're average, you're what you are.

Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer, and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

Half of the people in the world are below average.

We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our country…. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized PowerStation is presently able to produce.

Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.

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.

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

People ask me how come you've been around so long. Well, it's through playing the part of Mr Average Joe American.

Humanity is mind-controlled and only slightly more conscious than your average zombie.

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.

Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average