Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Gleason

I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

Stephen Covey

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Stephen Hawking

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average

Sigmund Freud

Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?

James Lovelock

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.

Thomas Frank

During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.

Russell Banks

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

Truman Capote

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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.

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Kabir Bedi

The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.

Kanye West

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

Warren Moon

I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

Ronald Reagan

For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.

Winston Churchill

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

Warren Farrell

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

The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.

Zora Neale Hurston

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.

Yuri Milner

Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.

Sandy Adams

I'm an average citizen and always have been.

Warren Buffett

Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things you can do wrong: You can buy the wrong ones, and you can buy or sell them at the wrong time. And the truth is you never need to sell them.

Warren Buffett

The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The greater the number of selections, the less will be the average year-to-year variation in actual versus expected results. Also, the lower will be the expected results, assuming different choices have different expectations of performance.

Warren Buffett

Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.

Warren Buffett

If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time.

Warren Weaver

One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange fact that events which are individually capricious and unpredictable can, when treated en masse, lead to very stable average performances.

Walter Lippmann

No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow.

Walter Lippmann

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

William Ralph Inge

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

William Kristol

The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.

Woody Hayes

Statistics always remind me of fellow who drowned in a river where the average depth was only three feet.

Woodrow Wilson

Government is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.

William J. Clinton

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

Urban Meyer

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