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One strategy for getting ahead is being incredibly good at a particular skill; you need to be world-class to stand out for that skill. In my case, I layered fairly average skills together until the combination became special.
Scott Adams
Good
You
Together
Strategy
World-Class
Incredibly
Out
Case
Layered
Combination
Particular
Until
Fairly
Became
Getting
Being
Average
Skill
Skills
Stand
Special
Need
Honestly, the average American spends about 52 minutes a day in commute traffic. And as much as I love driving my car and many people like driving their car, commuting has never been fun for me.
Sebastian Thrun
Love
Day
Me
People
Car
Honestly
Minutes
About
Never
Driving
Like
Been
Traffic
American
Average
Average American
Much
Commute
Commuting
Fun
Many
The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little antsy doing the same thing.
Seth MacFarlane
You
Same Thing
Jobs
Lifetime
Over
Course
Doing
Person
Get
Antsy
Same
Eight
Different
Little
Average
Average Person
Thing
Once you get past funny, my other qualities are so below average. It's not like I'm handy.
Seth Meyers
Funny
You
Past
Other
Once
Like
Qualities
Get
Handy
Average
Below
Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman.
Seth Shostak
World
Bit
Though
Charles
Darwin
Had
He
Primitive
Like
Around
Sailed
Were
Years
Quite
Quite A Bit
Interest
Average
Your
Even
Englishman
Compared
Things
Two
The episode of the 'shoe bomber,' Richard Reid, has suddenly meant more feet being bared at airports than at the average Hindu temple. My solution has been to replace my customary lace-up Oxfords with a pair of slip-on loafers when I fly. Generals are always fighting the last war, and security screeners are the same.
Shashi Tharoor
War
Fly
Fighting
Airport
Has-Been
Security
Solution
Temple
More
Generals
Feet
Hindu
Always
Been
Replace
Than
Shoe
Same
Being
Average
Richard
Episode
Meant
Pair
Reid
Suddenly
Bomber
Last
Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.
Shayna Baszler
People
Made
Way
Right Way
Says
Okay
Some
About
Construct
Feel
Up
Being
Social
Average
Who
Right
Imagined
According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code.
Sheldon Whitehouse
Single
Year
Earned
Our
Restore
About
Percent
Rate
Driver
Truck
Truck Driver
Fairness
Island
According
American
Same
Just
Tax
Tax Code
Rhode
Rhode Island
IRS
Tax Rate
Average
Paid
Who
Roughly
Code
Right
Million
Need
When I was creating my Luxhair Now wig line, I was listening to what my fans were saying online because I wanted to make something that the average woman could wear to work.
Sherri Shepherd
Work
Saying
Woman
Listening
Fans
Wig
Wear
Something
Online
Could
Make
Because
Line
Were
Wanted
Average
Creating
Now
I'd like to say it is only average people who revel in the mistakes of others.
Sibel Kekilli
People
Mistakes
Others
Say
Only
Like
Average
Average People
Who
I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars.' In the book library, you'd see John Grisham and Sidney Sheldon. And if you look in my fridge, it's, like, children's food - chips, milkshakes, yogurt.
Simon Cowell
Food
You
Library
Book
Collection
John
See
John Grisham
Like
Sophisticated
Look
Looked
Fridge
Yogurt
Tastes
Children
Chips
Average
Jaws
Wars
Star
Star Wars
If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger. In other words... success is no indication of longevity.
Simon Sinek
Success
You
Age
Words
Other
Indication
Something
Longevity
Like
Look
Years
In Other Words
Younger
Success Is
Average
Company
For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it.
Sloane Crosley
Life
Will
Sick
Paper
Cast
Consumed
Generally
Had
Taken
Thumb
Takes
Over
Prior
Said
Bed
However
Falling
Off
Person
Forget
Rollercoaster
Being
Cut
Average
Average Person
Body
Full
Serious
Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games.
Solange Knowles
Home
Back
Definitely
Something
Week
Football
Football Games
Australia
Get
Going
Japan
Average
Your
Games
Traveling
If I stop practising, I will be an average singer. There are a lot of singers I know who hardly practise, yet sing well.
Sonu Nigam
Will
Know
Sing
Singer
Singers
Well
Practise
Practising
Lot
Stop
Average
Who
Hardly
I believe that good investors are successful not because of their IQ, but because they have an investing discipline. But, what is more disciplined than a machine? A well-researched machine can make many average investors redundant, leaving behind only the really good human investors with exceptional intuition and skill.
Stanley Druckenmiller
Good
Discipline
Believe
Machine
Intuition
More
Only
Exceptional
Investing
Investors
Make
Because
Disciplined
Redundant
Leaving
Than
Behind
Human
Average
Really
Skill
Successful
Many
Good Human
Establishing a 'livable wage' floor would immediately reduce the gap in average pay between American women and men.
Stephanie Coontz
Women
Men
Pay
Immediately
Would
Between
Reduce
Wage
Women And Men
American
Establishing
Average
Livable
American Women
Gap
Floor
If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.
Stephen F. Lynch
You
Increase
Consider
Typical
Only
Small
Consumer
Clear
True
Becomes
Wages
Goal
American
Central
Average
Average American
Worker
Exports
Fraction
Everyone starts out desperately trying to make a hit, but some people are just more mistake-prone than others. I happened to be fairly mistake-prone. Of the 40 shows I made, I'd say ten were hits, which is a pretty good average.
Stephen J. Cannell
Good
People
Made
Some People
Starts
Desperately
Others
Everyone
Say
Out
Some
Pretty
Pretty Good
Ten
More
Make
Fairly
Were
Hit
Than
Trying
Hits
Just
Happened
Which
Average
Shows
I see myself as an average to above-average catcher in the big leagues.
Steve Clevenger
Myself
Big
See
Catcher
Leagues
Big Leagues
Average
The average customer comes into McDonald's three to four times a month, and I'm absolutely convinced that can fit in very comfortably into a balanced diet.
Steve Easterbrook
Three
Month
Absolutely
Balanced
Balanced Diet
Comfortably
Fit
Very
Times
Diet
McDonald
Customer
Average
Convinced
Four
I think, generally, the folks from mainland China have more positive feelings about the government here in many cases than the average Americans feel about their government.
Steve Wynn
Positive
Government
Feelings
Think
Folks
About
Cases
More
Generally
Feel
Than
American
China
Average
Many
Here
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
War
World
Petty
Everything
Allowed
Since
Bourgeois
End
Achieved
Which
Regimes
Average
Second
World War
Mediocre
Second World War
I'm a different type of rapper. I work more than the average rapper.
Tech N9ne
Work
Rapper
Type
More
Than
Different
Average
Different Type
Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
Ted Cruz
Future
Government
National
Community
Jobs
Carry
Hurting
Small
Small Businesses
Higher
Federal
Federal Government
Message
Hispanic
Hispanic Community
Unemployment
Than
Average
Businesses
Need
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.
Ted Nugent
Me
Respect
Father
Before
Tools
Out
Wisely
Like
Safely
American
Hang
Children
Them
Average
Average American
Use
Raised
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