T Quotes
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“The average introduction to almost any book is somewhat of a bore”
Source: And the Darkness Falls
“The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.”
“The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.”
“The average Joe in America is expected to move 11.3 times in his life. Who knows about Average Jane.”
Source: Joan Is Okay
“The average kindergartner has seen more than 5,000 hours of TV-more time than it takes to earn a bachelor's degree.”
“The average late-night viewer is in their mid-50s and the average viewer of TBS is in their 30s and is largely African-American and Hispanic, already, before I even get there.”
“The average lawn is an interesting beast: people plant it, then douse it with artificial fertilizers and dangerous pesticides to make it grow and to keep it uniform-all so that they can hack and mow what they encouraged to grow. And woe to the small yellow flower that rears its head!”
Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
“The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.”
“The average life expectancy rate in some parts of Glasgow is 54. If you've ever been there, you'll realize that that's maybe a bit long.”
“The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.”
“The average lifespan of a human is 72.6 years, and over 100 billion people have lived on this earth so far. Though the universe is 13.8 billion years old, our collective wisdom is undoubtedly higher than cosmic wisdom.”
Source: Quantraz
“The average lifespan of the common octopus is less than a year. Even the big ones don't live any longer than five, which means that all of them die right after their kids are born. The don't pass a single thing on to the next generation- no memories, no culture. In a way, shouldn't humans feel lucky?”
Source: Wild Blue Wonder
“The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion”
“The average man can't prove most of the things that he chooses to speak of, and still won't research and find out the root of the truth that you seek of”
“The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.”
“The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.”
“The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.”
“the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.”
“The average man does not wish to employ an ex-convict, because the average man has no confidence in the reforming powers of the penitentiary. He believes that the convict who comes out is worse than the convict who went in.”
“The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to be told specifically which particular stock to buy or sell. He wants to get something for nothing. He does not wish to work. He doesn't even wish to have to think.”
“The average man don't like trouble and danger.”
“The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen”
“The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.”
Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality
“The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.”
Source: Crystal Eastman on women and revolution
“The average man has no central core of moral assurance, no spring within his breast, no inner strength to place him above the need for repeated psychological shots to give him the courage to go on living. He has become a parasite on the world, drawing his life from his environment, unable to live a day apart from the stimulation which society affords him.”
“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”
“The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to himself. Perhaps you are chasing rainbows. You're after the self-confidence of the average man, when you should be after the humbleness of a warrior. The difference between the two is remarkable. Self Confidence entails knowing something for sure; humbleness entails being impeccable in one's actions and feelings.”
Source: Tales of Power
“The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”
Source: The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De
“The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.”
“The average man is not hard to mystify.”
“The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.”
“The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.”
Source: In defense of Harriet Shelley
“The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.”
“The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.”
Source: Minority Report
“The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness.”
“The average man sees an ugly avant-garde painting, learns it sold for a hundred million dollars, and cannot help responding, “But I could have painted that,” which is exactly the point. The progressive art critic might not claim the beauty of Pollock’s paintings was inherent in the paintings themselves, but in the ideas the painting communicates— although, it should be noted, every art critic has much to gain in championing art which cannot be understood without an interpreter.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.”
“The average man thinks about sex every tits seconds.”
Source: Inside The Mind of an Introvert: Comics, Deep Thoughts and Quotable Quotes
“The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.”
“The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a Pirate.”
“The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.”
“The average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth... It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy liberty - and he is usually an outlaw in democratic societies.”
“The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.”
Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959
“The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.”
Source: Astronomicon
“The average man. The emergence of the concept.”
“The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it was in Italy in 1951. The proportion of Vietnamese living on less than $2 a day has dropped from 90 per cent to 30 per cent in twenty years. The rich have got richer, but the poor have done even better.”
“The average millennial attention span is now 10 seconds, which means you might not catch the end of th...”
“The average millionaire can't tell you who got thrown off the island last night.”
“The average mind cannot enjoy solitude. It requires courage to rise above average.”