#average

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in. ↗

— Paul J. Meyer

#bit #effort #itself #little #little bit

We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this. ↗

— John Mica

#american #average #average american #concentrating #convert

The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#average #board #charles #dart #day

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time. ↗

— Paul Muldoon

#because #consciously #developed #film #good

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. ↗

— Robert Musil

#average #contemporaries #deep #fine #geniuses

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them. ↗

— Robert Musil

#actuality #along #always #average #awakens

Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#average #because #could #dollars #earnings

The average man is not hard to mystify. ↗

— Howard Thurston

#average man #hard #man #mystify

I've never professed to be anything but an average student. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#average #i #never #professed #student

There is a huge difference between journalism and advertising. Journalism aspires to truth. Advertising is regulated for truth. I'll put the accuracy of the average ad in this country up against the average news story any time. ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#ad #advertising #against #any #aspires