(832 quotes found)
“The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. 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 is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”
Carlos Castaneda
“The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.”
James Frank Dobie
“The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.”
W. Edwards Deming
“The average person thinks he isn't.”
Father Larry Lorenzoni
“I'm an utterly average, total geek.”
Julia Roberts
“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person”
Andy Rooney
“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”
Crystal Eastman
““A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.””
“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”
Colin Wilson
“We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.”
Celinda Lake
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