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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.

  • Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns.

  • While the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. While the other guy's eatin'? I'm working.

    Sleep   Guy   Other Guys  
  • There is no such thing as an average runner. We are all above average.

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

  • 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.

    Children   Average   Law  
    "The Age of Educational Romanticism". The New Criterion, May 01, 2008.
  • Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp.

  • Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these lines.

    Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.149, Oxford University Press
  • In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.

  • 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.

    "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. August 10, 2003.
  • 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 (2011). “The Big Secret for the Small Investor: A New Route to Long-Term Investment Success”, p.60, John Wiley & Sons
  • I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people.

    Average   People   Sides  
    Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. September 02, 2009.
  • Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

    A Prairie Home Companion (radio series) (1974 - 1987)
  • The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.

    Real   Believe   Men  
  • The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

  • The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

  • The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

    Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Source: www.mirror.co.uk
  • I don't know what the average income of Muslim-Americans is, but Muslim-American immigrants of recent vintage, I bet they have a very above-average representation in professional and business occupations.

  • I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.

    Funny   Humor   Average  
  • Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chainsaw thrown at you

    Running   Men   Average  
    Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.175, Delacorte Press
  • Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

    "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.
  • Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it.

  • You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to men by doing violence to your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes, especially shutting your eyes. Endure their villainy without anger, as much as possible; try to remember that you're a man too. For, if you're even a little above average intelligence, you'll have the propensity to judge people severely. Men are vile by nature and they'd rather love out of fear. Don't give in to such love: despise it always.

    Love   Eye   Boys  
  • By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.

  • The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average -- or only slightly above average -- detective story does.... Whereas the good novel is not at all the same kind of book as the bad novel. It is about entirely different things. But the good detective story and the bad detective story are about exactly the same things, and they are about them in very much the same way.

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

  • I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.

    Average   May   Not Sure  
  • Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.

    Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.131, John Wiley & Sons
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