„The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.“
— Colin Powell Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general 1937
1990s, My American Journey (1996)
„By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.“
Quelle: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Letzte Aktualisierung 3. Juni 2021. Geschichte
Jim Collins1
US-amerikanischer Manager 1958Ähnliche Zitate
„Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence,…“
— Andrew Tobias American journalist 1947
Quelle: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 12, They Bet Your Life, p. 225.
„Brazil above all, God above everyone.“
— Jair Bolsonaro Brazilian president elect 1955
In the presidential debate held by TV Bandeirantes on 9 August 2018. Primeiro debate da eleição 2018 reúne 8 presidenciáveis por mais de 3 horas na TV https://g1.globo.com/politica/eleicoes/2018/noticia/2018/08/10/primeiro-debate-da-eleicao-2018-reune-8-presidenciaveis-por-mais-de-3-horas-na-tv.ghtml. G1 (10 August 2018).
— Daniel Abraham speculative fiction writer from the United States 1969
Epilogue (p. 525)
Nemesis Games (2015)
— Charlotte Salomon German painter 1917 - 1943
written text with brush, in her paintings JHM no. 4599 https://charlotte.jck.nl/detail/M004599/part/character/theme/keyword/M004599 + 4600 https://charlotte.jck.nl/detail/M004600/part/character/theme/keyword/M004600: in 'Life? or Theater..', p. 482-483
Charlotte Salomon - Life? or Theater?
— Garrison Keillor American radio host and writer 1942
See also the Wikipedia article on the Lake Wobegon effect.
A Prairie Home Companion, News from Lake Wobegon
— Charles Murray American libertarian political scientist, author, and columnist 1943
Regarding the No Child Left Behind Act.
The Age of Educational Romanticism http://www.aei.org/article/27962, The New Criterion, Thursday, May 1, 2008.
— William Poundstone American writer 1955
Part Three, Arbitrage, This Is Not the Time To Buy Stocks, p. 134
Fortune's Formula (2005)
— Poul Anderson American science fiction and fantasy writer 1926 - 2001
Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks (p. 313)
Time Patrol
— Milton Friedman American economist, statistician, and writer 1912 - 2006
“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)
— Edsger W. Dijkstra Dutch computer scientist 1930 - 2002
you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.
Dijkstra (1975) Comments at a Symposium http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD05xx/EWD512.html (EWD 512).
1970s
„Although grace comes from above, that is not to say that everyone has the ability to accept to it.“
— Halldór Laxness Icelandic author 1902 - 1998
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland
„Everyone always did miss everyone else in this war, whenever it was humanly possible to do so.“
— George Orwell, buch Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia (1938)
„I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.“
— Henry Ford American industrialist 1863 - 1947
— Nelson Mandela President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist 1918 - 2013
2000s
Quelle: Nelson Mandela on determination, From a letter to Makhaya Ntini on his 100th Cricket Test (17 December 2009). Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes
„Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.“
— Rebecca Solnit, buch The Faraway Nearby
Quelle: The Faraway Nearby
„I've had all that I can take and exploding seems like a definite possibility to me.“
— Brandon Boyd American rock singer, writer and visual artist 1976
Lyrics, Make Yourself (1999)
— John Green, buch An Abundance of Katherines
Colin Singleton, pg. 215 (closing words)
An Abundance of Katherines (2006)
