Quotes of: Average-man Keyword

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

Jane Fonda

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.

Stephen Gaghan

The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.

Johan Huizinga

People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense.

Todd Rundgren

People's perceptions of me have nothing to do with reality. I'm basically just your average dork.

Art Alexakis

When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.

Adam DeVine

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

Aries Spears

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

Terri Windling

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.

Will Smith

Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.

Helen Fisher

It's not enough to say you want to lose fifty, seventy, or a hundred and twenty pounds. Because once you hit those magic numbers, what happens then? Where is the motivation to continue with this new lifestyle you've created for yourself? I think you'...

Counting Calories: A True Story From An Average Jane Who Lost Over 120 Pounds In Less Than 6 Months

Having low self-esteem and a shield of lard are not guarantees of safety. Having a warrior spirit, high self worth (most people are assaulted by someone they know, so if you think you're only worthy of hanging out with controlling low-life's, that's ...

Counting Calories: A True Story From An Average Jane Who Lost Over 120 Pounds In Less Than 6 Months

The average gym junkie today is all about appearance, not ability. Flash, not function. These men may have big, artificially pumped up limbs, but all that the size is in the muscle tissue; their tendons and joints are weak . Ask the average muscleman...

Convict Conditioning: How to Bust Free of All Weakness Using the Lost Secrets of Supreme Survival Strength

Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something new. Second, enlarge your enthusiasm to include the pursuit to excellence, following every task through to completio...

Love

In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.

Robert Fogel

We're getting to this amazing place where the average size in America is a 14-16, and we're starting to see that represented in the fashion industry, and it's becoming more accepted.

Hayley Hasselhoff

The call of distinction cannot be heard by the average, neither can the vision of distinction be seen by the eyes of the mediocre.

Onyi Anyado

The unsuccessful person neither thinks nor acts; the average person either thinks or acts; the successful person thinks and then acts!

Orrin Woodward

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

Patrick J. Kennedy

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

Peter Straub

I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.

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