averages Quotes

Someone asked me recently if marriage is 50-50 - it averages out to be 50-50, but sometimes it\'s 75-25, sometimes it\'s 90-10. In the end, it has to average out to be 50-50; that\'s how you support each other.

If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That\'s the kind of thing that I love to do.

Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.

The interesting thing about averages is that they hide the truth very effectively.

It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose retrospect of Switzerland was that, if its mountains could be thrown into its lakes, two nuisances would be got rid of at once.

The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100.

Averages might mean something to bureaucrats and engineers, but the sea had no struck with statistics: it was a succession of unpredictable circumstances and extremes.

That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

The top stars like Angelina, Cameron (Diaz), Sandra Bullock and probably now Jennifer Lawrence probably gets paid the same as their male counterparts. The problem is the averages. Because there are not enough parts for women to star in and get paid. So when you look at the total amount women make as compared to men it's paltry.

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.

I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.

Ballplayers who are first to the dining room are usually last in batting averages.

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.

Don't leave it to the law of averages to make you break even.

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.

Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

You know the law of averages says:<br /> Anything will happen that can

Not a day goes by that I don't click on RealClearPolitics at least once, the presidential poll charts, graphs and moving averages are great. If RCP didn't already exist, somebody would have to invent it.

Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle.

God isn't really interested in our batting averages.

A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time.

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble. ... If you're constantly pushing yourself higher ... the law of averages, not to mention the Myth of Icarus, predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

Xavier's been kind of lucky as far as injuries (over the years). I guess it's the law of averages catching up to them.

You look at their numbers and you'd think we were in a softball league. They have some young guys who can swing the bat. We fattened up some averages, that's for sure.

We're not worried at all. Guys are going to get there. They're going to be fine. Once league play starts, you'll see those averages start going up.