Top 79 Quotes About Above Average
#1. I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.
Adam Green
#2. Everybody thinks their website is above average.
Matt Cutts
#3. Not saying I rate myself lots now, but I rate myself more because I've been exercising. I'd say a six now. Just above average. There are a lot of good-looking people out there, you see, so more than six is getting a bit cocky.
Peter Andre
#4. Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence, ...
Andrew Tobias
#5. Remember that it is changes in the slope of the platform, not the level of the platform, that create shareholder value at an above-average rate.
Clayton M Christensen
#6. MBA students are not the only ones overconfident about their abilities. The "above average" effect is pervasive. Ninety percent of all drivers think they are above average behind the wheel,
Richard H. Thaler
#7. A decapitated head will live, on average, fifteen minutes, and I've always been above average.
Michael LaRocca
#8. It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the list to your thirtieth or fiftieth favorite pick, would create a much greater potential to earn above-average investment returns.
Joel Greenblatt
#9. The better looking you are the harder your life, under one condition: You're of above average intelligence. It's those unintelligent attractive people who have it best.
Gregor Collins
#10. The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.
Morrie Brickman
#11. The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Colin Powell
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.
Charles A. Murray
#15. An average trader loses money, so in this profession, you need to be way above average to make consistent money trading the markets.
Henrique M. Simoes
#16. Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.
Gary Hamel
#17. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.
Dave Barry
#18. The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
Friedrich Schiller
#19. If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you've got left are the sheep.
Alfred Bester
#20. Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it.
William J. Clinton
#21. As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average minds (and hearts) to work that's beyond most people's capacity, and perhaps save a few lives.
Dave DeBronkart
#22. 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
#23. You don't need an MBA, a certificate, a fancy suit, a briefcase, or an above-average tolerance for risk. You just need an idea, a touch of confidence, and a push to get started.
Jason Fried
#24. I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.
Will Smith
#25. There is almost nothing more common than the belief that one is above average in intelligence, wisdom, honesty, etc.
Sam Harris
#26. He had a penis one inch in diameter and seven and a half inches long. During the past year, he had averaged twenty-two orgasms per month. This was far above the national average. His income and the value of his life insurance policies at maturity were also far above average.
Kurt Vonnegut
#27. I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy.
Madonna Ciccone
#28. In what may as well be starkly labelled smug satisfaction, an amazing 94% [of college instructors] rate themselves as above average teachers, and 68% rank themselves in the top quarter of teaching performances.
K. Patricia Cross
#29. Competition among investors leads to a situation in which knowledge in the public domain can't lead to above-average investment returns.
Carl Futia
#30. Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.
Jeff MacNelly
#31. Historically, we have always seen reversion to the mean. After stocks have had an unusually great 10 or 20 years, they typically turn in subpar results over the next 10 or 20, and after bad 10- to 20-year stretches, the next 10 to 20 tend to be above average.
James O'Shaughnessy
#32. That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Garrison Keillor
#33. I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.
George Mikes
#34. companies that achieve a high return on capital are likely to have a special advantage of some kind. That special advantage keeps competitors from destroying the ability to earn above-average profits.
Joel Greenblatt
#35. Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.
John Paulson
#37. I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.
David Cross
#38. The beauty of America is that the average person always thinks she is above average.
Sam Levenson
#39. In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.
James S. Coleman
#40. Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state.
Jerry Brown
#41. An average person has an IQ of 100. An above-average person has an IQ of 120 to 140. A person with an IQ of 150 is considered a genius. Janine's IQ is 196. Sometimes
Ann M. Martin
#42. In contrast, upgrading the healthy is an elitist project, because it rejects the idea of a universal standard applicable to all and seeks to give some individuals an edge over others. People want superior memories, above-average intelligence and first-class sexual abilities.
Yuval Noah Harari
#43. Svoboda was not a brilliant man. He was a man of what used to be known as average and is now known as above-average intelligence.
Shirley Hazzard
#44. Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests.
Why?
You tell me.
I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it.
James Frey
#45. There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.
Hal Higdon
#46. There are a lot of people who have a high IQ, but if they don't work hard, then their intelligence does them absolutely no good. Average people win by putting in an above-average effort.
Eric Laughton
#47. 94 per cent of us think we do above-average work.
Michael Foley
#48. I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.
Richard Dawkins
#49. Life entertains humble men by giving men with below average looks (intellect, knowledge, etc.) an above average self-esteem.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#50. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.
Will Smith
#51. Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.
Michael Bergdahl
#52. Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.
Alvin Plantinga
#53. The states that have large in-migrations of Hispanics are Florida, Texas and California. And Florida and Texas are way above average in educational achievement, while California's the lowest, just about.
Arthur Laffer
#54. Study after study, however, concludes that about 90 percent of all publicly traded companies have proved themselves unable to sustain for more than a few years a growth trajectory that creates above-average shareholder returns.
Clayton M Christensen
#55. But as he spent more time with Livia and talked to her about what she was learning, he came to feel confident that she saw him only as her soulmate and never as a potential patient. She wanted to help him and just happened to have an above-average knowledge of how to do so.
Debra Anastasia
#56. Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.
Adolf Hitler
#57. In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average.
Albert Camus
#58. Average" isn't so hot at the race track given those steep track takes. "Average" is pretty decent for stocks, something like 6 percent above the inflation rate. For a buy-and -hold investor, commissions and taxes are small.
William Poundstone
#59. For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!
Norman Lock
#60. Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
W. Somerset Maugham
#61. Dare to be among the greatest. Even if you did not get the best, you will be above the good.
Israelmore Ayivor
#62. My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
Patrick J. Kennedy
#63. 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.
Melody Carlson
#64. cross-national studies show that the U.S. poverty rate, which stands persistently above 12 percent, is not only the highest poverty rate of any advanced industrial nation, but is more than twice the average for that group.
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Calvin C. Jillson
#65. Many counties in Maryland are above the average unemployment rate for both Maryland and the United States. We need representation in Congress who will make creating jobs the No. 1 priority so the people of Maryland can get back to work.
Andrew P. Harris
#66. Other countries spend, on average, only about one-half of what the U.S. spends per capita on health care. Isn't it reasonable, therefore, for us to expect our system to rank above theirs? Unfortunately, among these twelve countries, the U.S. system is consistently among the worst performers.
T. Colin Campbell
#67. It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again.
George Eliot
#68. The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.
Rabbit Maranville
#69. The various estimates of the height of the true summit vary considerably, but by taking an average of these figures it is possible to say confidently that the summit of Rum Doodle is 40,000 1/2 feet above sea level.
William Ernest Bowman
#70. A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.
Robert Musil
#71. My interest in foreign policy is above the average voter's interest. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it.
Michael Baumgartner
#72. In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.
Lev Vygotsky
#73. By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
James C. Collins
#74. In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.
Ronald J. Sider
#75. I see a sea of networkers all doing and saying the same things.
They look alike, act alike and sound alike when speaking to prospects.
If you want to rise above the average, mediocre networker ... then you
have to think differently.
Mark Weiser
#76. Surely if we all try hard, we can all lift ourselves up high above the average. It looks a little difficult mathematically, but that's nothing.
Stephen Leacock
#77. In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services.
Elton Gallegly
#78. It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
Robert Musil
#79. The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
William Howard Taft
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