#average

When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#average #average person #could #go #hire

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#average #average person #between #capacity #devote

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#ego #every #extent #fact #greater

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#heart #high #refuse #soar #will

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#america #attention #attention span #average #length

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero. ↗

— Bill Gates

#american #average #billion #bring #carbon

Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats. ↗

— Dick Gephardt

#average people #back #clinton #code #cut

The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap! ↗

— Jay-Z

#albums #average #get #life #lucky

People in life can be compared to the pieces on a chess board. Some are Kings and Queens, others are Knights and Rooks, then there are some pawns. However even a pawn, taking the right path and given the right opportunity can become any thing he wants. (Thoughts From the Average Man?) ↗

— Damon M. Roundtree

#the-average-man #inspirational

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#done #him #how #life #make