Below Average Quotes

#1. In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve high levels of success in some areas of life tend to take a LOT more action than those who settle for average or below average results.

Steve Pavlina

#2. I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early spring. I particularly like to go out when there is a below-average ebb tide because that exposes clamming grounds and oysters that are usually under water.

Jim Himes

#3. The ones who're so upset about everybody not being the same, about competition, about standards of quality, about art objects having 'auras' around them, they're usually people with average abilities and average minds. And below average senses of humor.

Tom Robbins

#4. We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average - are everyday speech. We don't even question the language, although the challenges we face require a different mindset.

L. Todd Rose

#5. Half the world is below average and it's not going to get any better.

David Crabb

#6. Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

Jack Welch

#7. Half of the people in the world are below average.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. okay. You're not that much below average." "I'm not below average at all! I'm above average! Way, way above average!" Quin shrugged. "Maybe you're a grower, not a shower," he said. "I'm going to throttle you," said Matheus.

Amy Fecteau

#10. Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.

Elizabeth Zimmermann

#11. I am below average!

Stephen Chbosky

#12. Was it possible to hammer 3.6 million American teachers into becoming master educators if their SAT scores were below average?

Amanda Ripley

#13. When I come back, we'll pretend like this never happened. We'll head to Wyoming and get back to what we do best.' Annie had no idea what it was that they did best; the two of them together seemed below average in all categories.

Kevin Wilson

#14. Why is the 'average man' so far below average?

Bruce Barnbaum

#15. One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though.

Gregory Benford

#16. By definition, fifty percent of every large group that let's anyone join is below average.

Jack J. Lee

#17. A person of average (or even below average) ability and experience can figure out how to use the thing to accomplish something without it being more trouble than it's worth. Take

Steve Krug

#18. On my way to the parking lot, in quick succession, I saw students wearing t-shirts which read, "Save the whales. Collect the whole set," "Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now," and "Half the people you know are below average." Typical for the Eastern student body.

Neil S. Plakcy

#19. The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.

Jeff Cooper

#20. Once you get past funny, my other qualities are so below average. It's not like I'm handy.

Seth Meyers

#21. Half the people in the world are below average. That's the definition of average and explains the behaviour of a lot of people.

Robert Popple

#22. Any system described by a power law [ ... ] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

Clay Shirky

#23. I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

Grant Achatz

#24. Remember, half the people you know are below average.

Larry The Cable Guy

#25. Did you know that half of all people are below average?

Garrison Keillor

#26. Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#27. On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.

Nia Vardalos

#28. I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.

Justin Bieber

#29. [Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the rest in virtue, must tend to sink below the average.

Bertrand Russell

#30. To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

Vance Havner

#31. The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. When you reach the line which marks that drop - for convenience, the one hundredth meridian - you have reached the West.

Bernard DeVoto

#32. Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.

C. G. Jung

#33. When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.

Noam Chomsky

#34. The planet earth is a sub-world, way below what's average, because if an enlightened being walked through New York City today, no one would see him or her. They wouldn't see the glow.

Frederick Lenz

#35. It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

Mark Twain

#36. Runners are the lowest of the low in film units. They're paid very, very minimal wages - probably below the national average. And runners are now being asked to drive actors about, as well as their runner duties. It's kind of the same as taking advantage of nurses - it's appalling.

Charles Dance

#37. I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.

Joe Namath

#38. Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

C. G. Jung

#39. Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.

Will Durant

#40. My biggest regret was letting my lifetime average drop below .300. I always felt I was a .300 hitter, and if I could change one thing that would be it.

Mickey Mantle