Top 1200 Above Average Quotes & Sayings

If you actually get down to the nitty-gritty of the average Pakistani, the average Indian, the average whoever, what you really do know emotionally is that they're exactly the same.

I was an above-average student who excelled in basketball and theatre.

I don't know what the average income of Muslim-Americans is, but Muslim-American immigrants of recent vintage, I bet they have a very above-average representation in professional and business occupations.

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

Everybody thinks their website is above average.

The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.

The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

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.

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.

Training programs shouldn't be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to producing excellence. Serious organizations don't aspire to be comfortably above average.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse -- and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.

I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan.

An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.

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.

In many parts of the Bible Belt, the divorce rate was discovered to be roughly 50 percent above the national average.

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

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.

I've seen really, really talented teams that don't care about each other and are average, maybe above average is about as good as you're going to get.

Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it.

Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.

Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.

I'm not here to tell you what your average needs to be, but it would seem to me that one way to protect yourself, as an entrepreneur, from the dreaded average is to understand what that looks like in your industry, your business, and your personal life and take the steps to be above average.

There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

I see myself as an average to above-average catcher in the big leagues.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

Everyone watches everyone pitch. If they're doing good, you're trying to take something out of them. I've taken something from probably every average to above-average pitcher I've ever played with - what they do. You see what they do and how you can put that into your game.

No matter what, the entrepreneur must strive to be above average and, at the same time, understand what is driving those averages they are seeking to beat. Take the time to understand and test the metrics you are using, and then you can not only set the average, you can exceed it.

Average wages now are still just barely above poverty, and one out of three Americans cannot afford healthcare even with the insurance,with jobs.

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.

Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

I grew up in a small, old-school Catholic world, imprinted with an above-average number of categories and judgments.

Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time.

All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic.

The Cure is clearly above average but seemingly unable to rally itself to move to a higher plateau.

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.

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.

My interest in foreign policy is above the average voter's interest. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it.

Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

One needs to be super intelligent and have an above-average IQ to be able to work in movies.

If one person from their fraternity is a little above average, they are celebrated as if they are the most gifted individuals. And who is enhancing their cause? It's a section of the media.

My intention when I make a film is very clear. I make it for a certain kind of people who have average intelligence - because I am also like that. I have an average sense of humor and an average brain.

"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.

I look back on people who are not the average, and those people are not the average because they choose to put it in their mind that they are not the average.

She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

If I have any strength that would be considered above average, it is that I can read people.

Bankruptcies increase 18 percent to 42 percent above the national average

The beauty of America is that the average person always thinks she is above average.

The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average -- or only slightly above average -- detective story does.... Whereas the good novel is not at all the same kind of book as the bad novel. It is about entirely different things. But the good detective story and the bad detective story are about exactly the same things, and they are about them in very much the same way.

Players will get you above average. To get to the elite, you need culture and leadership.

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

A good writer knows that if her style and perceptions are really cooking, she can bring anything off. It's okay, of course, for novelists to depict bland, average families living bland, average lives in bland, average towns. But it isn't okay when those novelists don't outshine their bland, average subjects.