I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation.
Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
Needs? I guess that is what bothers so many folks. They keep expanding their needs until they are dependent on too many things and too many other people... I wonder how many things in the average American home could be eliminated if the question were...
What does it take to break a person? Torturers and interrogators would be able to provide statistics. This many nights without sleep, this many needles, this much water, this voltage of current on this many occasions. But there is considerable variat...
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.
The trouble is that the average trader on Wall Street, he or she is so young, he doesn't even remember the recession of 2001, let alone the previous one.
She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face.
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.
If I stop practising, I will be an average singer. There are a lot of singers I know who hardly practise, yet sing well.
Tendulkar's genius is of an order that the average player cannot comprehend. Dravid's greatness is not just comprehensible, it is reassuring
I think if the average person that uses AOL can't physically see the changes in the company, we've failed.
The average mutual fund holding period for equity or fixed income is only about three years. It's too short.
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
I'm probably an average hitter, at least, and if you talk to my peers, they will tell you that I hit the ball plenty far enough.
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
The average married man lives two thousand and five days longer than his single counterpart, albeit with less reason.
The average author hawks their books at many events. They are vigilant promoters, waiting for a breakthrough. They do this, or else watch their novel wither away.
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
If you operate a TV or radio station, you have to have a license. It has nothing to do with fundamental freedom. It has to do with protection of the average citizen against abuses.
