Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.
The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, TV, video. And a lot of it is good, but a lot of it’s not. And so I think you’ve got that five hours a day of media coming into your kid’s head that’s creating a lot of havoc out there.
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
On an average day, I will spend 90 percent of my waking moments working on ‘Superwoman.’ I’m a huge workaholic. My hobby is ‘Superwoman.’
I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.
Don’t let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you’re crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you’re lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you’re greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn’t understand.
If I’m going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.
In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.
Can we get the average person on his way to work to pick someone up and drop them off once in a while?
They say that I’m very calculated and not very sensitive – that a regular, average person, there are many things that bother them, and I don’t see or feel it.
On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.
I think if the average person that uses AOL can’t physically see the changes in the company, we’ve failed.
My dad was an agent for Met Life. In the ’50s, I remember the mortality rate was something like – you had – 58 was the average age. Then it was moved up to 62, and then 65, 68.
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Audience participation can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your average dial-tone literary reading, especially if a handful of audience-members are mentally unhinged, and let’s face it – you can always depend on at least one crackpot at these things.
I’ve always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
With Biggie, I thought his flow and his swag was better than Tupac’s, but I thought Tupac’s passion and ability to relate to the average person was better than Biggie, and I thought Nas was kind of like both, with a lot substance going but a lot of swag.
Knowing what to say, in the right way – at the perfect moment – can mean the difference between a world-class life and an average one.
As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.
I wasn’t your average kid. I was signing autographs in Japan at 12.
There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader… He has to die! I can’t have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.
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.
Sea World’s killer whale collection needs constant replenishing. The average life span of the animals in captivity is less than half the average for killer whales in the ocean.
I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
I understand that the average person can’t imagine damaging their looks in any way if it could be avoided. But I don’t value my physical beauty to the point where I would not do something I truly enjoy because I’m afraid of potentially hurting something superficial.
I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don’t wear make-up. I go to the gym.
I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we’re drastically cutting our energy consumption, we’re actually raising our standard of living.
I wouldn’t want to do an average fashion line. I’d want it to be an amazing piece of art.
The average Londoner knows just one neighbour. I travel a lot, and I’m always surprised by the strong sense of community in some countries. We’ve lost something fundamentally human, and we don’t even realise it.
Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who’s sick of the games politicians have been playing for years. Those same blue-collar folks, who go to church, want to feed their families, have to pay their taxes.
The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there’s the least competition.
Look at smartphones. We are seeing growth almost like a barbell. You see lower-priced but high-volume growth in the developing world. But it ends up the average selling prices in the developing world are actually a lot higher than what people think.
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.
People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less.
On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That’s part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it’s all on loan.
The average household income has really stagnated since 1971.
White lies keep social dignity intact and are far more prevalent than most people realize. Several studies have found that an average person is lied to from 10 to 200 times a day – mostly just to keep a conversation going, to avoid conflict, or to establish a connection with someone.
The average rap life is two or three albums. You’re lucky to get to your second album in rap!
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
Three years after the four deepest previous recessions began – in 1953, 1957, 1973 and 1981 – employment was on average 4.7% higher than the pre-recession peak.
Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don’t realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.
The Twitch community loves watching video games, chatting, and broadcasting. The average viewer watches over an hour and a half of video each day. Over two-thirds of our logged-in users chat each day.
Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders – not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.
I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.
I’m not the average artist.
He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it’s not working. I did a study on this, you know.
You can’t run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?
Think back to the early rock n’ roll records, and the average record length in the ’50s – and well into the ’60s – was two and a half minutes. It’s very hard to put that much songwriting into two and a half minutes.
When you’re average, you’re just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.
That’s the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they’re extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they’re just average with a good education.
And it’s difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC.
