Average Quotes
-
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
-
I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
-
Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.
-
If you look back historically at the post-WWII period on average, if you get a 100-basis-point increase in Fed funds, the spillover to the ten-year is only 35 basis points, and 25 basis points into the 30-year - it's a fairly small spillover effect.
-
The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.
-
In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point.
-
The average woman is a size 14 but 'plus' models start at a size six. The industry wants you to feel bad about yourself, and they succeed. I find it to be disgusting.
-
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.
-
If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.
-
You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.
-
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
-
It is foolhardy to make a second trade, if your first trade shows you a loss. Never average losses. Let this thought be written indelibly upon your mind.
-
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.
-
I was never happy as a child, so it wasn't something I took for granted.i did'nt grow up as an average, american child. An average child grows up with an expectation of being happy.
-
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.
-
The six and one-fourth hours' television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind needn't make any pictures since the pictures are provided, so the mind cuts current as low as it can.
-
Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.
-
My acting was only average. I wasn't dedicated. Starting as a tot and working for twenty years was long enough, so I quit. The fan mail still arrives . . . why, I don't know.
-
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
-
I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
-
The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.
-
If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!
-
You ain't average! But you know what? You're playing small because it's easier to be average.
-
According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output-which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.
