Above Average Quotes

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

  Colin Powell

  Success, Military, Winning

  Colin L. Powell (1995). "Mi viaje por América", Random House Incorporated

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• Bienvenido a Lake Wobegon, donde todas las mujeres son fuertes, todos los hombres son guapos y todos los niños están por encima de la media.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong Women, Children, Parenting

  A Prairie Home Companion (radio series) (1974 - 1987)

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• Lo único que une a todos los seres humanos, independientemente de su edad, sexo, religión u origen étnico, es que todos creemos que somos conductores por encima de la media.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Birthday, Believe

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• La media se estima por lo que hace, la media por lo que es.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspiración, Éxito, Autoestima

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• 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.

  Jerry Brown

  Average, Common Sense, Cameras

  "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2003.

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

  William J. Clinton

  Average, Should Have, Political

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

  Michael Bergdahl

  Average, People, Results

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons

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• No existe el corredor medio. Todos estamos por encima de la media.

  Hal Higdon

  Inspiración, Deportes, Correr

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• If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him out and turn him into a plus value. Why throw him away? Do that enough and all you've got left are the sheep.

  Alfred Bester

  Men, Sheep, Average

  Alfred Bester (1996). “The Demolished Man”, Vintage

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• While the other guy's sleeping?
  I'm working.
  While the other guy's eatin'?
  I'm working.

  Will Smith

  Sleep, Guy, Other Guys

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

  Morrie Brickman

  Real, Creer, Hombres

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• I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.

  Daniel Tammet

  Average, May, Not Sure

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• In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.

  James S. Coleman

  School, Average, Achievement

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• I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.

  David Cross

  Average, People, Sides

  Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. September 02, 2009.

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• Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it.

  James Frey

  Smart, Average, Addiction

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.208, Anchor

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• 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.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Average, Doe

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• Sabes, muchacho, dijo, es imposible amar a los hombres como son. Y sin embargo debemos hacerlo. Así que trata de hacer el bien a los hombres haciendo violencia a tus sentimientos, tapándote la nariz y cerrando los ojos, sobre todo cerrando los ojos. Soporta su villanía sin ira, en la medida de lo posible; trata de recordar que tú también eres un hombre. Porque, si tienes siquiera un poco de inteligencia por encima de la media, tendrás la propensión a juzgar severamente a la gente. Los hombres son viles por naturaleza y prefieren amar por miedo. No cedas a ese amor: despréncialo siempre.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Eye, Boys

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• Por definición, no es posible que todo el mundo esté por encima de la media.

  James C. Collins

  Average, Definitions, Good To Great

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• 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.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humor, Average

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• Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.

  Alvin Plantinga

  Thinking, Moral Fiber, Average

  Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.149, Oxford University Press

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• Anecdóticamente, sus informes de aptitud física lo calificaban muy por encima de la media en las aulas, excelente en el campo de batalla, bilingüe fluido en inglés y francés, pasable en español, sobresaliente en todas las armas portátiles y más que sobresaliente en el combate cuerpo a cuerpo. Susan sabía lo que significaba esa última calificación. Como si te lanzaran una motosierra en marcha...

  Lee Child

  Correr, Hombres, Media

  Lee Child (2015). "The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal", p.175, Delacorte Press.

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

  Gary Hamel

  Average, Return, Strategy

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• 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.

  Thomas Friedman

  Average, Vintage, Income

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• In what may as well be starkly labelled smug satisfaction, an amazing 94% [of college instructors] rate themselves as above average teachers, and 68% rank themselves in the top quarter of teaching performances.

  K. Patricia Cross

  Teacher, Teaching, College

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• Are you an action-oriented, take-charge person interested in exciting new challenges? As director of a major public-sector organization, you will manage a large armed division and interface with other senior executives in a team-oriented, multinational initiative in the global marketplace. Successful candidate will have above-average oral-presentation skills

  Winston Churchill

  Senior, Team, Successful

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