Top 1200 Average Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

I tell people not to do their best. I don't know when that started. Quite a while ago. Because I . . . when they're doing their best I don't get their best. So I try to persuade them to be average. Because if you're wonderful and you're average, you're still wonderful. If you're a bad improviser and you're average, you're what you are.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.

The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.

beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means earning a lot of money and having a home, two cars, children in college. Success to me is entirely different to what success is to the average person. Success is being a successful human being in terms of pursuing what you believe in. If you believe in making paintings, writing poetry, writing music. If this is what you really want, you're successful to yourself. But to be successful to your culture means to sell yourself short of what you really want

Looking after myself is something I probably have to be much more conscious of than the average person.

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.

I've always wanted to be taller. I feel like a shrimp, but that's the way it goes. I'm five-foot four-and-a-half-inches - that's actually average. Everything about me is average. Everything's normal, in the books. It's the things inside me that make me not average.

Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?

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

Basically, I'm just an average person who takes a little extra care of his health.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

I think if the average person that uses AOL can't physically see the changes in the company, we've failed.

It's weird, because realistically, I'm the average person. I got in one fight my whole entire life.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

Unlike most other people, I'm just an average person.

I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.

I believe I am more intelligent than the average person.

Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

The average person expels flatulence 15 times each day!

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

I'm an average girl with an average family - and I hope people can see that.

There are two kinds of success. One is the rare kind that comes to the person who has the power to do what no one else has the power to do. That is genius. But the average person who wins what we call success is not a genius. That person is a man or woman who has merely the ordinary qualities that they share with their fellows, but has developed those ordinary qualities to a more than ordinary degree.

Between 2007 and 2010, the average white family experienced an 11% reduction in wealth, but the average black family lost 31% of its wealth. The average Hispanic family lost 44.7%.

I'm pretty sure my expectations are higher than the average person's. It just sets standards.

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.

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

I am an average player, but even the great players don't have an average of 42, with a strike-rate of 75.

If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.

I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding

Average is the enemy of excellence, and average commitment will prevent you from enduring to the end.

When you talk about the security and safety of average Americans it doesn't do average Americans a lot of good to expand America's military footprint if the daily lives of average Americans are being undermined by the fact that we're no longer able to compete in a global economy. I think that's the kind of human security we have to pay more attention to.

A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income.

Let's just face it: The average girl is not 6-3. I look very average.

It's fair to say average Americans think that the average Afghan doesn't want American troops in their country.

I don't have to worry about what the average record company person thinks because I am the record company person.

Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.

Your average sitcom writer is a very intellectual person.

I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.

We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.

It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of.

I'm simple in my approach and straightforward. I connect with the average person that is interested in food.

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

I was born with the genetic condition called 'achondroplasia,' which I inherited from my dad: my mam is average height, and my dad is also a little person. I am the oldest of five children, and I am the only one who is a little person.

I feel like what motivates me is what would motivate the regular average person.

I got into economics because I wanted to make things better for the average person.

I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.

The average person tells a few white lies.

The issues that most impact the average person are made at the local level.

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

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.

It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?