Above Average Quotes - Page 2

• The beauty of America is that the average person always thinks she is above average.

  Sam Levenson

  Thinking, Average, America

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• Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

  Jeff MacNelly

  Running, Ambition, Average

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• The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Average, Long

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• She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Trust, Character, Average

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• I loved nuns when I was growing up. I thought they were beautiful. For several years I wanted to be a nun. I saw them as really pure, disciplined, above average people. They had these serene faces. Nuns are sexy.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Beautiful, Sexy, Growing Up

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• Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.

  John Paulson

  Average, Long, Done

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• The major changes that will be occurring within the new merged partnership are exciting in many ways. First, we will have the highest forecast distribution growth rate of any of the major MLPs. Second, our coverage will be above average for the same peer group with expected $1.1 billion of excess cash flow coverage through 2017 and the Access cash flows, along with our major new fee based projects continue to dramatically reduce exposure to commodity prices.

  Alan Armstrong

  Commodity Prices, Cash Flow, Average

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• Everybody thinks their website is above average.

  Matt Cutts

  Thinking, Average, Website

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• Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

  Andrew Tobias

  Hay Fever, Average, Suffering

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the list to your thirtieth or fiftieth favorite pick, would create a much greater potential to earn above-average investment returns.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Moving, Small Numbers, Average

  Joel Greenblatt (2011). “The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success”, p.60, John Wiley & Sons

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• I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent. And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. While the other guy's eatin'? I'm working. While the other guy's making love, I mean, I'm making love, too. But I'm working really hard at it.

  Will Smith

  Mean, Sleep, Average

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• The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

  Charles A. Murray

  Children, Average, Law

  "The Age of Educational Romanticism". The New Criterion, May 01, 2008.

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• Not saying I rate myself lots now, but I rate myself more because I've been exercising. I'd say a six now. Just above average. There are a lot of good-looking people out there, you see, so more than six is getting a bit cocky.

  Peter Andre

  Cocky, Exercise, Average

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

  Richard Dawkins

  School, Average, Careers

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• Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe that each of us is above average on any test of self-integrity. Too often we look to the stars through the thick lens of personal invulnerability when we should also look down to the slippery slope beneath our feet.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Stars, Integrity, Believe

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• Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony - this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Stress, Holiday, Vacation

  "Cool Memories".

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

  Will Smith

  Average, Talent

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• 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.

  L. Todd Rose

  Average, Challenges, Everyday

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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