Top 100 Quotes About Average Person
#1. 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
#2. Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.
Stuart Chase
#3. I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.
Fred Rogers
#4. I think if the average person that uses AOL can't physically see the changes in the company, we've failed.
Tim Armstrong
#5. We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.
Bob Barker
#6. I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.
Helen Gurley Brown
#7. According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.
Jerry Seinfeld
#8. I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.
Buzz Aldrin
#9. There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing.
Bruce McLaren
#11. For the average civilized person to whom, as to Patrick Henry, even death is acceptable in the absence of liberty.
Federico Mangahas
#12. Everyone has his own timeframe for grieving. His is just longer than the average person's.
Elle Casey
#13. It's fun to play around ... it's human nature to try to select the right horse ... But for the average person, I'm more of an indexer ... The predictability is so high ... For 10, 15, 20 years you'll be in the 85th percentile of performance. Why would you screw it up?
Charles R. Schwab
#14. If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.
Earl Nightingale
#16. I do not believe that the average person wants a 'map' of his face - I believe he wants to be idealized.
Louis Fabian Bachrach Jr.
#17. An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
Thomas A. Edison
#18. 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.
Sebastiao Salgado
#19. Technology makes good DJ's better, but also allows your average person to think they're a DJ, and unfortunately there's no checks and balances about people making it a career.
Neil Armstrong
#20. When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.
Josh Brolin
#21. I wanted to be my own boss. I was fascinated by airlines and how I could change travel for the average person. Then I wanted to diversify.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#22. 1.9% had agricultural jobs, more than a 20-fold improvement in productivity per person. So if all people wanted was to be fed, the average person needs to work
Daniel Berleant
#23. According to the World Health Organization, an average of Rs. 6500 per person was lost in India due to lack of cleanliness and hygiene. Swachh Bharat would make a significant impact on public health and in safeguarding income of the poor, ultimately contributing to the national economy.
Narendra Modi
#24. Twenty years in this business convinces me that any normal person using the customary three percent of the brain can pick stocks just as well, if not better, than the average Wall Street expert.
Peter Lynch
#25. If you stretched the average person's intestines out from end to end, it would make them scream a lot.
Demetri Martin
#26. An average person with average talent, ambition and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.
Brian Tracy
#27. When Prohibition was first enacted in 1920, most people stockpiled alcohol, thinking they'd have enough to last them for years. By 1923, that was starting to run out, so your average person started to rely more and more on criminals.
Terence Winter
#28. Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
Arnold Bennett
#29. But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite.
Sydney J. Harris
#30. The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
Francis Quarles
#31. The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
Andrew Carnegie
#32. An especially good way to gain weight is to have dinner with other people.11 On average, those who eat with one other person eat about 35 percent more than they do when they are alone; members of a group of four eat about 75 percent more; those in groups of seven or more eat 96 percent more.*
Richard H. Thaler
#33. We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.
Ben Silbermann
#34. Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So, it's about egalitarianism. It's about sharing things more equally. It's about access to natural resources.
Arundhati Roy
#35. The average person is allergic to the words of wisdom.
Lowkey
#36. I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.
Tori Amos
#38. Damn everything but the circus! ... The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions.
E. E. Cummings
#39. She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be
she was a librarian, after all.
Sarah Beth Durst
#40. Regular people don't even realize how much artists mean to them. Artists represent a lot to the average person. People listen to music all day on their iPods, so as artists, we become a real fixture in people's lives. As an artist, you can't take it personal. It's like your big brother teasing you.
Nicki Minaj
#41. The average person lets their emotions dictate their actions, while achievers let their commitments dictate their actions.
Hal Elrod
#42. The number of hours the average American watches TV has remained steady, at about four and a half hours a day, every day (by age sixty-five, a person will have spent twelve uninterrupted years in front of the TV).
Neil Postman
#43. This idea that the buying, or even the reading, of books is an expensive hobby and beyond the reach of the average person is so widespread that it deserves some detailed examination.
George Orwell
#44. The information superhighway showed the average person what some nerd thinks about Star Trek.
Homer
#45. There is something about the ability to externalize our thoughts and compare them with other people in a public way that is really transformative for the average person.
Clive Thompson
#46. The average person has 50 negative thoughts in a day, leading to stress, which leads to fear and anxiety. This is the bad stuff that can break our bodies down.
Gregg Michaelsen
#47. The average person just sees through their senses. The world is filled with wonderful mysteries and beauty. You need personal power to open up all of that, without it - these are just words.
Frederick Lenz
#48. Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.
Dixie Lee Ray
#49. I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we're about, anyway. Alexander, Alexander, Alexander. But it's about the brotherhood. Shaun's a great player, but we have a lot of weapons around here.
Chuck Darby
#50. Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Sigmund Freud
#52. The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney
#53. When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.
Robert Kiyosaki
#54. We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
Bill Hybels
#55. Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.
Philip Greenspun
#56. 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
#57. I think your average fan probably just assumes that the same person directs every episode of their favorite series, week in and week out.
Michael Spiller
#58. Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself. And they taught me to think of myself as the average guy. Sometimes the average guy belongs in a role more than your matinee idol-type of person. We have to have people we can relate to.
Joe Pesci
#59. I wear a pedometer, a little device that counts every step. It works as a goad, because you walk additional distances to pile up the numbers. The average person walks 2,000 to 3,000 steps a day. I walk 10,000 steps a day. I have lost a lot of weight as a result.
Roger Ebert
#60. The beauty of America is that the average person always thinks she is above average.
Sam Levenson
#61. As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.
Josh Young
#62. I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
Laurie Anderson
#63. The world is very disparate, in terms of the US using the most energy per person, and then the other rich countries - Europe, Japan, New Zealand - using about half of what we do, and then the world average being about a fifth of what we use, with China just now surpassing the world average.
Bill Gates
#64. The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.
Christian D. Larson
#65. There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations.
Daniel Tammet
#66. I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society.
Sasha Azevedo
#67. I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.
Lisa Marie Presley
#68. I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent.
Willie Aames
#69. I've always like watching competition and athleticism. Just seeing the average person going up against Gladiators, is always something I enjoy. I'm not really a big sports fan, but I do enjoy the show.
Laila Ali
#70. Your average person wouldn't recognize a sublime entity if it attempted to fist fuck them while waiting in line for the next Batman sequel.
Janeane Garofalo
#71. The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.
Brian Tracy
#72. We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.
Ben Silbermann
#73. Then again, NHEs generally meant death and mayhem, so the average person would probably run the other way even if Gray had rainbows coming out of his butt.
Jordan L. Hawk
#74. Our enthusiasm is contagious! With it, we are tuned in to a higher purpose and without it, we are just an average person.
Farshad Asl
#75. We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.
Ivan Stang
#76. A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time.
Warren Farrell
#77. Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.
Beatrice Lillie
#78. 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
#79. I'm not an outgoing person. Compared to an average person, I am quite skeptical and pessimistic. This is different from being nervous.
Kim Jee-woon
#80. Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
Barack Obama
#81. If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.
Jerome K. Jerome
#82. My exploits are nothing now to the average person.
David Bailey
#83. I'm never overwhelmed or under it either; just nicely whelmed. I'm OK. Nothing spectacular but sometimes special. I look in the mirror and see this medium average person. A little tired, a little sad, but not falling apart.
Cecelia Ahern
#84. I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
#85. Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.
Emily Post
#86. Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.
Dick Dale
#87. When you have big dreams, you're going to have big challenges. If you were an average person you would have average problems.
Joel Osteen
#88. In 1800, the average person consumed 5 pounds per year;7 now we average 152 pounds a year.
Rick Warren
#89. I'm a singer. I'm a dancer. I'm a performer. I'm an actress. That's what I'm supposed to be doing. It makes me a better parent, a better person. I think I can just handle more than the average bear, you know?
Jennifer Lopez
#90. The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.
Joel Salatin
#91. The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
Frank Barron
#92. Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#93. Being heard is so close to being loved, that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.
John C. Maxwell
#94. It is not enough to show that drug A is better than drug B on the average. One is invited to ask, 'For which people ("& why") is drug A better than drug B, and vice versa? If drug A cures 40% and drug B cures 60%, perhaps the right choice of drug for each person would result in 100% cures.'
Lancelot Hogben
#95. Network marketing is the big wave of the future. It's taking the place of franchising, which now requires too much capital for the average person.
Jim Rohn
#96. Preventative medicine has to be the direction we go in. For example, if colon cancer is detected early - because a person knew he had a genetic risk and was having frequent exams - the surgery is relatively inexpensive and average survival is far greater than 10 years.
Craig Venter
#97. The average person is either a weakling, or just a happy person who wants to get along, or thinks being tough is having big muscles and strutting around town and having a good-looking girlfriend.
Alex Jones
#98. The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.
Ivor Novello
#99. People who have been prostitutes are ten times more willing to be johns than the average person. So, if you've been paid for sex you understand the value of that experience on some level.
Annie Sprinkle
#100. Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.
Barbara Kingsolver
