You educate a boy, and he’ll have fewer children, but it’s a small effect. You educate a girl, and, on average, she will have a significantly smaller family.
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven’t tried anything really noble.
I think I’m pretty average. Typical.
Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
We need to expose the lies and educate the Palestinian public that Israel is not the enemy. Israel actually helps the people of Gaza more than anybody else. We need the average Palestinian to see this clearly.
Because of her interest and demands, I amplified an average baritone voice into one that is loud and clear.
Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino’s alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.
I actually feel like comic book movies need to be better than your average movie.
If I stop practising, I will be an average singer. There are a lot of singers I know who hardly practise, yet sing well.
On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.
If I’m going to make something in the kitchen, even if it’s something as simple as a sandwich, I will take the extra time to make it a great sandwich instead of just an average sandwich. I don’t mind investing a little extra work to make something special.
People’s perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I’m basically just your average dork.
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
I’ve read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.
The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
Briefly speaking, our conclusion is that stochastic volatility does not make a huge difference as far as the pricing is concerned if you get the average volatility right. It makes a big difference as far as hedging is concerned.
I was a writer. I couldn’t sell anything, and the comedians were among the dumbest people I had ever met. They’d all say to me, ‘The average man won’t understand it.’ You know, they’re superior to the average man.
Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
I had a daily 30 minute pushup routine. Then I boxed 3 times a week for about an hour. And then, I had the trainer come to my house an average of 1 to 2 times a week.
Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us – I mean the girls – $2 increase in our wages on the average.
The military does very well taking average people and making them very good leaders.
If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employee, then your pay is most likely right where it should be.
The average person tells a few white lies.
I think I’m a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
‘Jihad’ can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
You’ve just got to keep grinding, putting good ABs together; just stop trying to look at the record, your batting average. You’ve got to go out there and just keep playing.
When I was in grade five or six, I just remember quite a lot of people were always talking about me like I was some kind of math genius. And there were just so many moments when I realized, like, okay, why can’t I just be like some normal person and go have a 75% average like everyone else.
Every loan that we did in the City of Detroit in the 10 years they studied – between 2005 and 2014 – were conventional FHA, VA loans with average interest rates of 6%.
Most of us think that we are ‘better than average’ in most things. We are also ‘miscalibrated,’ meaning that our sense of the probability of events doesn’t line up with reality. When we say we are sure about a certain fact, for example, we may well be right only half the time.
Mitt Romney is to presidential campaigns as the Delta House grade point average was to Faber College – the worst in history.
As an athlete, I’d average four hours a day. It doesn’t sound like a lot when some people say they’re training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work.
The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody’s a publisher.
I wanted to be my own boss. I was fascinated by airlines and how I could change travel for the average person. Then I wanted to diversify.
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
In today’s knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.
The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can’t be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
I’ve never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I’ve viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.
Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.
We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product.
I’m not particularly gifted; I’m not genetically freakish in any sense; I’m absolutely average.
About two-thirds of bachelor’s degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they’re graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
I see myself as an average to above-average catcher in the big leagues.
The setting of ‘Billy Elliot’ is the British miners’ strike of 1984-85, about which the average American playgoer knows absolutely nothing.
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
The Democratic Party has become the party of the coastal elite, and the Republican Party is the party of the working class and that average American citizen who’s been struggling over the past eight years with Obama in the White House.
Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.
If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it’s something like 35 years or younger. In other words… success is no indication of longevity.
The average Liberian, it turns out, does not share the same assumptions as the average black Methodist minister from Chicago.
The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
In my estimation, there are four kinds of people that live on this earth: average, good, great, and phenomenal. Phenomenal is like Mother Theresa. She’s dead, but we still talk about her on a regular basis. That’s phenomenal.
It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared – we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring – the more they cared, the harder they laughed.
It’s so easy to make an Asian person the doctor, the lawyer, the smart kid in school. What’s harder is challenging the norm and hiring Asian actors to play your Average Joe.
The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a five-pound bag of sugar.
The average American is more focused on leadership than likeability. And more focused on qualifications than quality of speakership.
With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of ‘average,’ Instead, you will see the era of you.
On average, an individual doesn’t have a powerful connection with more than four to six people, and that’s just as true here in the U.S. as it is in China.
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.
A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.
