#average

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#average person #darkened #disco #dozens #drive

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#average #discuss #events #great minds #ideas

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. ↗

— Will Smith

#average #i #myself #never #particularly

The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#being #better #book #brady #chance

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#conditions #hears #only #prevailing #production

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#average #commonplace #compositions #conceived #false

The Queen is usually reckoned equal, in average situations, to two Rooks and a Pawn, but towards the end of a game she is hardly so valuable as two Rooks. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#end #equal #game #hardly #pawn

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#brute #experience #instinct #instructed #minds

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm. ↗

— Peter Straub

#average #begins #day #ends #hour

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#average #day #deeper #done #down