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“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.”

“It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose retrospect of Switzerland was that, if its mountains could be thrown into its lakes, two nuisances would be got rid of at once.”

Ifs Two Soul Seems Would Be Difficult Views Mountain Limits Average Variety Charm Dull Native Thrown Lakes Flats Inquiry Comprehensive County Retrospect Switzerland Nuisance Statistician

Author:Francis Galton

“It's a good news - bad news type of situation. The good news is that we won; the bad news is that my average is 9.00.”

Situation Type News Average Good News Bad News

Author:John Garrett

“The average person tells a few white lies.”

Persons Lying White Average Average Person White Lie

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable?”

Ifs Thinking Government Rights Citizens Average

Author:Glenn Beck

“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.”

Ifs States Speak Common Fronts Cameras Average Crowds Common Sense Above Average

Author:Jerry Brown

“Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.”

Mean Mass Marketing Average

Author:Seth Godin

“In the Washington soft money game, big business and big labor are accomplices working together to protect the mushy middle of big government, with plenty of special interest plums: Big unions get big spending and big business gets corporate welfare and special tax breaks - all at the expense of average Americans.”

“If money is free speech, the big interests are sitting in front with megaphones and the average citizens are sitting in the back.”

Ifs Bigs Interest Fronts Citizens Speech Sitting Average Free Speech

Author:John McCain

“Generalizations about the "way women are" and estimates of what is appropriate for most women no longer justify denying opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description.”

Way Opportunity Talent Capacity Average Appropriate Description Justify Generalization

Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“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.”

Wells May Teacher Teaching College Performances Rate Average Satisfaction Quarters Instructors Above Average

Author:K. Patricia Cross

“A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.”

Knows Speak Forgotten Average Athlete Decades Educated Graduates

Author:Theodore Hesburgh

“Until our mission becomes our obsession, we'll be chained to the realm of average.”

Average Missions Obsession Realms Chained

Author:Robin Sharma

“Fans of the 'Inbetweeners' like the show because it is about four normal people, average guys or lower than average losers.”

People Shows Guy Four Fans Normal Average Loser

Author:Simon Bird

“We need to invade Michigan and rebuild the state from the ground up. We will be greeted as liberators, we have clear supply lines, and we can easily rebuild the auto industry with the kind of money we spend on other countries we invade. Hell, our new Secretary of State, Hillary of Clinton, spent the better part of the past year fighting for the rights of average folks from Michigan, so think of the good will we have with the public. This is very doable. Just tell Congress we will give KBR no-bid contracts to fix Detroit.”

“It's unfortunate when an athlete's talent comes with so little forethought or leadership [...] The Falcons need to start over. If next year's team ends up being young and hungry but fairly average, the last thing you want as a general manager or coach is to have a blowhard cornerback whining about his contract leading the charge, no matter how good he is.”

“Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.”

People Years Looks Government Three Challenges Wealth Millions Members Dollars Average Billions Income Federal Government Percentages Million Dollars Staggering Forbes Receptionists

Author:Warren Buffett

“A women can make an average man great, and a great man average.”

Men Average Great Men Average Man

Author:Robert Burns

“If you ask the average guy on the street to name five companies that have truly transformed themselves over the few decades, Hewlett-Packard would be on everybody's list. You'd also put on this list GE and Johnson & Johnson.”

Ifs Would Be Guy Asks Names Company Five Streets Average Decades Lists Transformed Johnson

Author:Clayton Christensen

“Three years between records is longer than average. Double albums are much more of a statement. I really wanted to put myself out there as much as I possibly could.”

Years Wanted Three Records Average Albums Statements Three Years

Author:Zachary Cole Smith

“I guess in life I find people who, at first glance, appear to be very typical or average, whatever that means, and then turn out to have hidden qualities.”

People Firsts Mean Turns Quality Average Typical Glances

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“I think that it's important that the American people know that Barack Obama didn't have a mild association with Bill Ayers, he had a very strong association with Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers is not someone that the average American wants to see their president have an association with.”

People Thinking Knows Want Important Strong President Bills Average Barack Association Very Strong

Author:Michele Bachmann

“There's definitely a tension between the way teaching is talked about and understood at the political level and how everyday average Americans think about teachers.”

Thinking Way Political Levels Teacher Teaching Understood Everyday Average Tension

Author:Dana Goldstein

“Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to feel like they were sitting around the dinner table with me and my friends, hearing what average people really say and really think, [where] the dinner table is the best place to find out.”

People Thinking Feels Wanted Middle Reader Sitting My Friends Tables Everyday Average Hearing Dinner East Curious Middle East Everyday Life Texture Sitting Around Best Place Dinner Table

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“The fact is, though, what I think we really like is Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and James Gandolfini. We like what the media has created of the mob bosses in movies and TV and books, because it's something the average person never comes into contact with, it's almost as outwardly outlandish as a sexy vampire, and so we can romanticize it, it's non-threatening.”

Thinking Persons Book Facts Media Tvs Average Sexy Contact Vampire Boss Als Threatening Average Person Brando Outlandish De Niro

Author:Tod Goldberg

“We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average - are everyday speech. We don't even question the language, although the challenges we face require a different mindset.”

Different Faces Used Language Challenges Speech Concepts Tools Everyday Average Mindset Measuring Sorting Challenges We Face Above Average

Author:L. Todd Rose

“That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?”

Humans Human Beings Standards Discovery Average Data Capture Surprising Isms

Author:L. Todd Rose

“The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit - it's bespoke all the way.”

Way Age Average Size Available Mediums Suits Fighter Clothings Pilots Affordable Gowns Fighter Pilot

Author:L. Todd Rose

“Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic standpoint, is we're not producing the talent we need.”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Problem Kids Economic Talent Deserve Average Selfish Just Being Standpoint Processing Being Selfish

Author:L. Todd Rose

“We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot of pilots, like wraparound windshields, but their initial solutions, when they realized average didn't work, were adjustable seats. How in the world did they not already have adjustable seats in their planes? We're looking for adjustable seats for education, for basic things that we can do.”

World Use Force Can Do Air Solutions Average Planes Seats Expensive Pilots Initials Suitable Analogies Air Force Basic Things Cockpit

Author:L. Todd Rose

“People who have been prostitutes are ten times more willing to be johns than the average person. So, if you've been paid for sex you understand the value of that experience on some level.”

People Ifs Persons Has Beens Values Sex Levels Willing Ten Paid Average Average Person

Author:Annie Sprinkle

“Tens of millions of dollars spent, all meant to get Jeb Bush elected president. He currently is polling on average at around 5%.”

President Millions Dollars Average Polling

Author:Chris Hayes

“If I had to describe myself to an alien I'd say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I'd also say I'm really handsome - especially if they were a female alien.”

Ifs Humans Two Enjoy Drink Female Bigger Average Aliens Meals Handsome Describe Myself Good Meals

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.”

Writing Trying Years Children Book Notes Musical Average Determine Eight Producers Camps Sensibility

Author:Charles Busch

“On average, once a month for the last 10 years since her [Harper Lee] stroke, we have sat and talked and told stories and exchanged insults... Which she loves. I think one secret to our friendship was I did not treat her like a marble woman, and my wife - I joked with her, and I joked with her, and that was the sort of contours of our friendship.”

Thinking Years Stories Lasts Secret Wife Months Treats Average My Wife Sat Insult Strokes Marble Harper

Author:Wayne Flynt

“What's great is we actually have friends who belong or have previously belonged to the Amish community, so we got first hand stories and I was able to talk with them about visitors and visiting the Amish country. It was very enlightening to think this is very much going on as we speak. What was really interesting was that the upcoming Amish generation is actually closer to average American teenager in their use of the English language because of the use of technology.”

“When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.”

People Trying Years Kids Lasts Energy Numbers Gone Dying Figures Revolution Smart Thirds Average Intensity Smart People Industrial Revolution Life Span Average Life

Author:Bill Gates

“The world is very disparate, in terms of the US using the most energy per person, and then the other rich countries - Europe, Japan, New Zealand - using about half of what we do, and then the world average being about a fifth of what we use, with China just now surpassing the world average.”

World Persons Country Use Energy Term Half Rich Europe Average China Japan Fifth New Zealand Surpassing Rich Countries

Author:Bill Gates

“There is an element - particularly on social media - where I want to encourage positivity and kindness rather than negativity and bashing of other people. I think that is a way I try to incorporate social responsibility into my life, but I feel like my day to day is pretty average.”

People Thinking Way Want Feels Trying Social Responsibility Kindness Media Elements Average Positivity Social Media Negativity Day To Day Social Responsibility

Author:Danielle Panabaker

“The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.”

Social Hours Raises Average Extras Weekend

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“While it is almost certainly true that leaders ought to eat last, the evidence on the ever-widening difference between CEO and average employee pay and the enormous severance packages leaders obtain even as front-line workers see their economic well-being eviscerated makes a mockery of the idea that leaders do anything other than take care of themselves.”

Wells Ideas Care Lasts Differences Lines Pay Leader Economic Fronts Ought Evidence Workers Average Take Care Enormous Well Being Employee Ceo Packages Mockery

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“I would say that nerds, as a rule, are much more sexually active than the average person. There's a lot of anxiety and stress in the nerd brain, so sex is good for that.”

Persons Sex Brain Anxiety Stress Average Active Nerd Sexually Average Person

Author:Chris Hardwick

“What marketers used to do is make average products for average people. That's what mass marketing is. They would ignore the geeks, and - God forbid - the laggards. It was all about going for the center. I don't think that's the strategy we want to use anymore.”

People Thinking Want Use Used Products Mass Strategy Marketing Average Geek Marketers

Author:Seth Godin

“This is real. This is not a phase. This is not a temper tantrum. The average American who I believe makes this country work thinks the Republican Party is actually oriented against its interests and does not understand or believe the crisis they think the country's in.”

Thinking Believe Doe Real Country I Believe Interest Party Republican Crisis Average Temper Phases Republican Party Tantrums Temper Tantrums

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I wrote in 2009 saying that I was stepping down from my column at "Newsweek" because I wanted to make room for newer, fresh voices out there, I discovered that in the year I was born, 1952, the average life expectancy of an American was 68. I was shocked by that figure and every time I mention it I hear a gasp from somebody in the crowd. Now, of course, we're more or less at 80, so that means that we've gotten 12 additional years.”

Years Mean Book Wanted Courses Voice Born Rooms Figures Average Crowds Topics Shocked Columns Expectancy Life Expectancy Average Life

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Virtually all families in the middle of the earnings distribution aspire to send their children to a school of at least average quality. (We'd think ill of any parent whose aspirations were lower.) The rub is that the best schools tend to be located in more expensive neighborhoods.”

Thinking Children School Parent Quality Middle Average Ill Aspiration Expensive Neighborhood Aspire Earning Distribution Best School

Author:Bob Frank

“The upshot is that to send its children to a school of even average quality, a family must outbid half of other similar families who are pursuing the same goal. And that's become dramatically more expensive because of the growth in median house size, which was in turn caused by higher spending at the top.”

Children School Turns House Goal Growth Half Quality Higher Average Size Spending Expensive Median

Author:Bob Frank

“I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.”

Poor Grew Grew Up Extraordinary Average Alabama Average Joe

Author:John Lewis

“Preaching styles and people being slain in the spirit and things like that. Now it doesn't happen in all black churches, and it happens sometimes in white churches, right? But on average they're quite a bit different.”

People Different Sometimes Happens Spirit Bits Black Church White Style Average Preaching All Black Black Church

Author:Michael Emerson

“So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very kind of staid perspective. Again, there are charismatic white congregations all over, and they don't sing that way. But, you know, on the average.”

Knows Way Mind Kind Body White Perspective Europe Tradition Average Congregation Charismatic

Author:Michael Emerson

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