Quotes about average
average
It's not your average fish-out-of-water but it's a fish-out-of-water. Jimi Mistry
average continue looks until
It looks like it will continue until the end of January. In February, it looks like we'll go back to average or below-average temperatures.
average close historic looks normal water
It looks like we'll have something close to a normal water year. Close to historic average flows.
average law special
Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith to satisfy a sudden demand - unlike the railway company which doubles its trains to carry a special influx of passengers; the law-made instrumentality lumbers on under all varieties of circumstances at its habitual rate. By its very nature it is fitted only for average requirements, and inevitably fails under unusual requirements. Herbert Spencer
average trying citizens
Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work they undertake, succeed, and, in the average of cases, are advanced in proportion to their efficiency; while the incompetent, society soon finds out, ceases to employ, forces to try something easier, and eventually turns to use.
average guy want
I don't ever want to be an average fourth starter. I want to be the big guy. Jeremy Bonderman
average practice skills
Whatever the difference between brilliant and average brains, we are all creative. And through practice and study we can enhance our skills and talents. Jeff Hawkins
average three temperature
In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average. Jeff Goodell
average greatest-fear people
A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy. Jerry Seinfeld
average ideas differences
While it is almost certainly true that leaders ought to eat last, the evidence on the ever-widening difference between CEO and average employee pay and the enormous severance packages leaders obtain even as front-line workers see their economic well-being eviscerated makes a mockery of the idea that leaders do anything other than take care of themselves. Jeffrey Pfeffer
average pages can-do
If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average. James C. Collins
average definitions good-to-great
By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average.
average fans details
The literature now is so opaque to the average person that you couldn't take a science-fiction short story that's published now and turn it into a movie. There'd be way too much ground work you'd have to lay. It's OK to have detail and density, but if you rely on being a lifelong science-fiction fan to understand what the story is about, then it's not going to translate to a broader audience. James Cameron
average two mind
Captivating the spirit of the age is a matter of great talent; being swept away by it characterizes an average mind. The two are as different from one another as activity and passivity. Franz Grillparzer
average the-end-of-the-day being-played
At the end of the day, there are a hell of a lot of notes being played out there and I defy the average middle-American or the average punter to differentiate between them. Jeff Beck
average knives secret
I might look as average as the next person but I had a few secrets up my sleeves. And lots of knives of course. Jeaniene Frost
average proud
I'm proud to represent the average woman. Jennifer Hudson
average democracy voters
The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average. Jeff Cooper
average car choices
The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible. George Will
average guy culture
When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo. George Saunders
average income equal
Your income tends to equal the average income of your five best friends, Jeff Olson
average fundamentals blame
The average human's fundamental project is to find someone else to blame for their problems. Jim Goad
average years california
In addition, California spends nearly $1 billion a year in Medi-Cal services for an average of 780,000 illegal immigrants a month, over and above emergency health services. Elton Gallegly
average guy used
I'm used to being efficient and a guy that can do more than the average guy can. Jason Statham
average land cities
Assuming that a tax increase is necessary, it is clearly preferable to impose the additional cost on land by increasing the land tax, rather than to increase the wage tax - the two alternatives open to the City (of Pittsburgh). It is the use and occupancy of property that creates the need for the municipal services that appear as the largest item in the budget - fire and police protection, waste removal, and public works. The average increase in tax bills of city residents will be about twice as great with wage tax increase than with a land tax increase. Herbert Simon
average ideas yield
The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their heads. The few friends the forest had were spoken of, when they were spoken of at all, as impractical theorists, fanatics, or "denudatics," more or less touched in the head. What talk there was about forest protection was no more to the average American that the buzzing of a mosquito, and just about as irritating. Gifford Pinchot
average law people
One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though. Gregory Benford
average way different
We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else. Gore Vidal
average freedom-of-speech liberty
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
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Human beings are complicated, yet from our experience of working with hundreds of thousands of people, weve learned that most or even all of the average persons neuroses and hang-ups disappear when they start giving and serving others.
average good green knows light pass shoot taller values versatile
He's a pretty versatile player. He's taller than average at 6-11 and he can shoot it, he can pass it and he values the game. If he doesn't have a good shot, he'll pass it, but he also knows he's got the green light to shoot it. Bo Ryan
average correspond designed recent research shown speeds walk
Generally, we have designed the flashing don't walk to correspond to an average pedestrian speed. In recent years, research has shown that pedestrian speeds are not that similar.
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Gas prices are the classic pocketbook issue for the average person and the average family, and these are things that they notice very much. It helps explain the paradox we see in the polls: The economy is very good, but right now a majority of people say it isn't. The hurricane, and its aftermath, will only exacerbate this problem.