#average

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo. ↗

— George Saunders

#average guy #bad #cant #culture #discourse

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie. ↗

— John Sayles

#average #change #direct #draft #first

As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#designer #good #i #like #much

By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#after #average #cost #could #down

Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#average #big #came #i #increase

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#average man #different #hardest #man #something

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker. ↗

— Junior Seau

#another #average #being #fear #i

Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#cuts #hood #income #low #old

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves. ↗

— Nate Silver

#average #data #more #numbers #people

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#every #mankind #mysterious #performance #personality