Don't Be Average Quotes

#1. So don't be average. Don't be good. Don't be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten.

Eric Thomas

#2. A wise man once asked to his mentor, "What advice would you give the average investor?" his reply was, "DON'T BE AVERAGE.

Celeste Young

#3. Einstein once said that if you have one hand on a hot plate and one hand in a freezer, on average you will be comfortable. This is what we do in love, I suppose. Once you have been really burned, you put your hand in the freezer, so that you don't get scalded. It seems the reasonable thing to do.

Mark D'Arbanville

#4. Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

Pat Riley

#5. I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.

Viswanathan Anand

#6. I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.

Felix Hernandez

#7. Look here, my boy, if you have average intelligence, about half the things you do are bound to be right, which is a fair achievement for any career. Don't spend sleepless nights over them.

R.P. Noronha

#8. My fiancee's average size, and my son's average size, so I don't want to alter my whole house, because the resale won't be very good unless we sell it to another little person.

Martin Klebba

#9. In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.

Beau Willimon

#10. The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. I don't believe in 'super-men,' for the world is full of capable men, but it's the fellow with determination that wins out.

Charles M. Schwab

#11. Anyone who looks for life can find it ... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with a lollypop in one hand and a camera in the other. You can't be a Nice Nelly and take news pictures.

Weegee

#12. I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.

Daniel Tammet

#13. I don't ever want to be an average fourth starter. I want to be the big guy.

Jeremy Bonderman

#14. Everyone can be awesome if they want it bad enough. And I don't believe that anyone wants to be average. I think everybody desires greatness, at least at some point in their life.

Jason Ellis

#15. Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for the average programmer, you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.

Edsger Dijkstra

#16. I am not your average girl. That isn't me. I want you to notice when I'm not around. I want you to remember the little things. I want you to see me for who I am. I don't want to be like everybody else. I follow my heart and never look back. I'll go on shining no matter what ... Always shine.

Anonymous

#17. I don't choose to be a common man. I want to be better tomorrow than today. And through a commitment to work and discipline, but mostly hard work. I'll be a little more content, and a little different from the average guy.

Jay Robinson

#18. I understand that the average person can't imagine damaging their looks in any way if it could be avoided. But I don't value my physical beauty to the point where I would not do something I truly enjoy because I'm afraid of potentially hurting something superficial.

Laila Ali

#19. You say that money doesn't bring happiness... but you have them... don't ya?
If they don't bring happiness give them to average class and the result will be called "Bringing happiness!

Deyth Banger

#20. I want to be great at what I do. I don't want to be just an average rapper.

Rapsody

#21. You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.

Charlie Munger

#22. Fundamentally, your brain doesn't like or want to believe in randomness. It always believes you have some control, even when you don't.

It may be delusional but we're happier deluded. And delusion ironically makes us perform better on average.

Eric Barker

#23. There is something glorious about this place we call Texas. Hell, I don't know, it must be in the water. Somehow, as overwhelming odds and pressures congregate over Texas like a spring storm, average men and women are transformed into icons of history.

David Thomas Roberts

#24. All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.

Brother Ali

#25. Actors need a kind of aggression, a kind of inner force. Don't be only one-sided, sweet, nice, good. Get rid of being average. Find the killer in you.

Stella Adler

#26. I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.

Thomas Piketty

#27. The average person can look at someone in public life and say they have it all, but they might be struggling. Or you may think another person has more apparent challenges, but she's deeply grateful for her life. I don't think anyone can judge what having it all means for someone else.

Ivanka Trump

#28. 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.

Ginger Rogers

#29. 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.

Joyce Meyer

#30. On a good day I think I'm handsome, on an average day I'm average. I'm a man's man so I don't necessarily know how cute we're supposed to be.

CeeLo Green