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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.
Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.
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.
There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average.
I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.
I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been people who are struggling to stay in the middle class.
Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
Even a child who's above average on self-control could improve their financial outcomes in mid-life if they improved their self-control skills early on.
An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain.
During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period of hardship for billionaires.
In a hyper-connected world where average is over, there is one thing we know absolutely for sure: Every good job will require more education.
Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.
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.
I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.
I originally wanted to be a singer, but I was average. I made 18 records, but none were that great. I was in a dance band at Bournemouth Pavilion for three years, and I played guitar too.
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little frustrating because there aren't that many roles out there for height-challenged actors.
I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time.
I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?
My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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.
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.
In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.
Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
Three years between records is longer than average. Double albums are much more of a statement. I really wanted to put myself out there as much as I possibly could.
I wanted something that was really well-made but also still hitting a price point that's tangible and logical for average people - that's who I want to cater to.
I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother.
Give Compassion: Every day the average person fights epic battles never told just to survive.
If life gives you a passport size dream, don't frame it... Order for a reprint... Go for the bigger picture of you! You deserve a bigger and bright image of you... Go and soar like an eagle!
Break every chain of mediocrity that confines you. You may have begun at a level below average, but dare to leave that side and paddle your steps to cross the river with honours.
Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.
...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.
Great minds find beauties and appreciate it. Average minds find commonalities and compare. Small minds find the problems and criticize.
Step out of the crowd of average people. Enter that game and change the values on the scoreboard.
Do not be an average person, average is not normal, average is lazy. set goals, dream more, break the rules and become a better person you want be. BE HUMBLE AND KIND
To become a better you, be diligent and never let the charms of procrastination and excuses seduce you to fall for mediocrity.
Dare to be among the greatest. Even if you did not get the best, you will be above the good.
If you stay passionate and committed, mediocrity will never be eager to befriend you.
Learn new things. Do progressive research into what you do and find out how others outside your quarters are doing it. Dare to be excellent. Average brands easily go into extinction soonest.
Mediocrity is a pit that swallows people who have rested on seats of complacency for long.
Good leaders always bring about transformation... Bad leaders only maintain and preserve long standing mediocrity!
If you are not angry with your average performance, you can't effect a change! You must get upset to grab the energy to break the fence confining you!