The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
Over the past few years special interests have had a larger and larger say over who gets what in America, and the voices of average citizens are being shut out.
Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
Once typecast as the indispensable altarpiece of a well-appointed living room, TVs have infected every human environment. The average American household has more television sets than people.
For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.
Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.
My exploits are nothing now to the average person.
My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.
I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'
The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.
I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car and many people like driving their car, commuting has never been fun for me.
Marriage is about the most expensive way for the average man to get laundry done.
You know, the dirty secret in the Director's Guild is that the average life expectancy of Director's Guild members is 57 years old. The stress level is so high and directors are generally really out of shape, cause they sit in the chair and they eat craft service.
On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans.
I think I'm pretty average. Typical.
I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.
We want to assist China's soft power; we want to develop a vibrant young cinema in China. The average American has no understanding whatsoever of China. We'd like to create a young generation to tell their stories on a world stage. We can make history as well as make money.
Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself.
Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.
I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
I'm pretty much your average, energy-saving-light-bulbs-recycling citizen.
The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.
There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.
My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
You're not going to have a 1.000 batting average, but the way you get votes is, you just push and you push. I'm not afraid to do that.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
I'm not here to tell you what your average needs to be, but it would seem to me that one way to protect yourself, as an entrepreneur, from the dreaded average is to understand what that looks like in your industry, your business, and your personal life and take the steps to be above average.
