Quotes of: Average-people Keyword

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions...

Ray Dalio

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and takin...

Daniel Kahneman

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

The mythology of freedom under capitalism for the average person is a con job.

Voice of Reason

We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

Ben Silbermann

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Colin Wilson

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

Margaret Sanger

I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics.

Stephan Pastis

Average working people need more fresh starts. Big corporations, banks, and Donald Trump need fewer.

Robert Reich

The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself.

Peter Sotos

I can reach people the average person can't reach because I'm as grounded as I am.

DMX

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

Warwick Davis

In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

William Greider

The average sparrow is something of a bore and the trouble is that all sparrows are average.

How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.

Hugh Mackay

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.

Douglas Coupland

The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.

Queen Rania of Jordan

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

The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness.

Carlos Castenada

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

Carlos Castaneda