Top 1200 Average Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper.

Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

It is not possible for a single person to be working outstanding miracles, signs and wonders which millions of other Nigerians cannot do and for such a person to be an agent of Satan. They - the God's generals - should combine forces and deliver such a satanic person or get rid of him.

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

I'm an average guy, skinny, not so tall, I put my sunglasses on, and I blend in.

We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty of nature breaks out; we find he is not what we thought, and begin to suspect that every person exceeds our power of measurement.

What gets lost is we wouldn't be who we are and as successful as we have been if we didn't have a decent batting average.

I think it's ridiculous when people say, 'I don't date actors.' It's about the right person, and no matter what that right person does for a profession, they're still going to be the right person.

On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

I'm just the average guy, I fooled around a little on the side.

Whenever I travel to a poor country, I try to help at least one person. Usually, that person helps me just as much - I can find a local poor person to be my guide or my interpreter. That person makes money from me, I make money from him or her, we both learn about each other. It's an equal win-win relationship.

The average household income has really stagnated since 1971.

The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.

I like playing average guys who have a little extra something.

Character - We describe the character of a person in reference to moral judgments about the worthiness of a person. Thus, to have a strong, great or honorable character is to be a person of merit, worthy of admiration and honor.

We're not going to have a perfect batting average and it's important that Americans understand that.

Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another.

I think a smart woman can sell the average man anything.

I threw a good fastball and changeup, but a below-average curveball.

When you start to meet with ordinary people you understand that a Russian person, really any person from Russia, a Tatar, a Mordvin, a Chechen, a Dagestani, they are very open people, even a little naive. But there's one defining trait that probably all peoples have, although it comes out especially strongly in us. That's a drive toward fairness. It's one of the dominating, I think, traits in the mentality of a person from Russia, a Russian person.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben - or Al Gore, Paul Krugman, or any other climate-change doomsayer - to put his wealth where his words are. I'll bet $10,000 that the average annual number of Americans killed by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes will fall over the next 20 years. Specifically, I'll bet that the average annual number of Americans killed by these violent weather events from 2011 through 2030 will be lower than it was from 1991 through 2010.

The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.

The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.

The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.

When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.

The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.

To understand Afghanistan, you have to face the stress the average Afghan deals with.

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

Beds last on an average much longer than marriages.

I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.

Your average comedian doesn't know the podcast universe, really.

There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.

I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

The average American has 11 jobs in their lifetime, and I've only had one.

If everybody has a voice, then you end up with something average.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

In the United States, the average is two children per family, while in Africa it is five children per family. On the surface, the statistic seems to indicate that Africans are having way too many kids and are taxing the Earth's resources, while American kids are born into families who are able to take care of them. However, the average American child consumes roughly the same resources as fifteen African children. So when an American family says they only have two children, they are actually consuming the resources of an African family of thirty children!

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.

On average, I order about three meals for myself in one sitting.

If all Christians and Jews tithed their income as the Bible commands, every poor person would be cared for, every naked person clothed, and every hungry person fed.

?The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

Manhattan is increasingly less available to average-income earners.

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

I think first-person narrators should be complex, because otherwise the first-person is too shallow and predictable. I like a first-person narrator who can't totally be trusted.

To be honest, I feel like just an average human being.

I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.

Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.