Bell Curve Quotes

#1. In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

Foster Friess

#2. When you lie about yourself, is it to appear closer to or farther away from the middle of the bell curve?

Sheena Iyengar

#3. Actually, the full bell curve goes: brilliant; pretty good; mediocre; mediocre and interminable; dire; vile; dire and vile; and dire, vile, and interminable.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#4. On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the Internet allows us to find ourselves in other people - and to know that we are not alone.

Virginia Postrel

#5. Stay in the middle of the bell-curve of social norms and follow along, or you will find out the about freedom you never had.

Bryant McGill

#6. All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

Thomas Lennon

#7. Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

Marcus Buckingham

#8. The era of bell curve distributions that supported a bulging social middle class is over and we are headed for the power-law distribution of economic opportunities. Education per se is not going to make up the difference.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#9. The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

Simon Sinek

#10. On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

Virginia Postrel

#11. I Came away from the U.S. Memory Championship eager to find out how Ed and Lukas did it. Were these just extraordinary individuals, pridigies from the long tail of humanity's bell curve, or was there something we could all learn from their talents?

Joshua Foer

#12. The Bell Curve might have been called Why Intelligence Matters, explaining the connection of intelligence to life outcomes; this book completes the syllogism.

Michael Levin

#13. I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

Lady Gaga

#14. It's not right to believe that the only way you're gonna get a job and the only way you're gonna get a man or be happy is by being so skinny.

Maria Conchita Alonso

#15. More than once Nynaeve had been shocked at her own cruelty, even while she was delighted at her inventiveness.

Robert Jordan

#16. I've always been uncomfortable, so to speak, when the focus is on me.

Derek Jeter

#17. It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.

Laurel Lea

#18. During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he didn't believe it was buried there] and reburied it in a metal box.

Tony Horwitz

#19. Pure logic suggests that if the entity in the coffin is not fundamentally the person you used to know, you cannot miss him. Because that's not a loss; that's a change.

Jodi Picoult

#20. It's not just college grades that fall in a curve. Human decency is bell-shaped, with some of us slopping over the edges. Saints on one end, sinners on the other.

Alex Adams

#21. I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience.

Russell Simmons

#22. Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?

Henry David Thoreau

#23. Jeb Bush admitted that he smoked a notable amount of pot in school. He said, 'You would too if your parents had named you 'Jeb.'

Conan O'Brien

#24. A native speaker of English who has never read a word of the King James Bible is verging on the barbarian.

Richard Dawkins

#25. An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

John Junor

#26. A woman's income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date low-earning women, but once a woman starts earning too much, they seem to be scared off.

Steven D. Levitt

#27. The reality of life is chaos; the fantasy of man is order. (..) The world of art, the world of games, the world of politics, so many worlds men make for themselves, are in a very fundamental way fantastic.

Eric S. Rabkin