“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.” ChildrenWisdomKnowledgeHistoryLearningAdultsManagementAverageIntelligenceEducationalPsychologicalMentalityContrastRadiantMissing YouInner ChildDistressingChildren PlayingDifferent MentalityFeeble Minds Author:Sigmund Freud
“A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.” InspirationalChildrenCompanyBoysAtheismSonAdultsIntelligentAverageTeensTeenageThank You Author:John B. S. Haldane
“Young adults living with a stutter is hard work. How do they handle job interviews? What do they do when the phone rings? How do they chat someone up? All these things the average person takes for granted prove to be a stammerers biggest challenge.” PersonsHardJobsYoungChallengesHard WorkProveAdultsAverageYoung AdultPhonesRingsHandleGrantedInterviewsAverage PersonJob Interview Author:Gareth Gates
“By the age of 18, the average child has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence, including 18,000 simulated murders, on television. It is not always easy to provide clear, consistent structure for children, but providing it often helps keep children safe and helps them grow to be responsible adults.” ChildrenHelpingAgeGrowsEasyClearViolenceMediaTelevisionSafeAdultsMurderResponsibleStructureIncludingAverageConsistentProvidingBeing ResponsibleActs Of ViolenceMedia Violence Author:Jean Illsley Clarke
“It is an odd fact of evolution that we are the only species on Earth capable of creating science and philosophy. There easily could have been another species with some scientific talent, say that of the average human ten-year-old, but not as much as adult humans have; or one that is better than us at physics but worse at biology; or one that is better than us at everything. If there were such creatures all around us, I think we would be more willing to concede that human scientific intelligence might be limited in certain respects.” IfsThinkingYearsHumansHas BeensPhilosophyFactsMightWould BeEarthCertainTalentWillingEvolutionTenCreaturesCreatingCapableAdultsSpeciesAveragePhysicsOddBiologyCould Have BeenScience And Philosophy Author:Colin McGinn
“Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.” ChildrenCertainAdultsAverageAthleteBatting Author:Jamie Farr
“The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills- like a God. It is the Ordinary made beautiful; it is also the Average made leathal. The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health.” ChildrenMadeEyeBeautifulMillionsNormalOrdinaryAdultsAverageStaringIndispensable Author:Peter Shaffer
“Since the late 1970's, the main focus of prisons has been punishment, not rehabilitation. It's hard to believe, but you would be hard-pressed to find a meaningful violence-prevention class in a federal or state penitentiary. And 'we the people' are footing the bill to keep these folks imprisoned. It costs on average $46,000 a year to keep an adult incarcerated in California and about the same for New York State.” PeopleYearsBelieveHas BeensHardStatesWould BeClassFocusViolenceNew YorkCostLateAdultsBillsPrisonAverageFolksMeaningfulPunishmentCaliforniaPreventionRehabilitationHard To BelieveNew York State Author:James Fox
“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.” InspirationalWellsFeelingsMorningTerribleHealthyAdultsSevenAverageGet UpHealth CareThirtyGood MorningFunny Good Morning Author:Jean Kerr
“The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.” ChildrenLaughingAdultsAverage Author:Martha Beck
“Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.” ThinkingKnowsChildrenSometimesYoungLosesBreakLaughingFourBabyAdultsAverageYoung ChildrenToddler Author:Joel Osteen
“And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in twenty viewers actually had a bad reaction. And it was mostly kids who were affected. I mean younger than you guys. I think the average age was about ten.' That made me feel somewhat better. But that was a kid's show,' said Jen. 'Maybe it affects everyone, but not that many adults were watching.' That made me feel less better. I wanted my protective bangs back.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsShouldMeanMadeSaidShowsKidsAgeWantedGuyTenSafeAdultsTwentiesAverageReactionsAffectedViewersBangsProtective Author:Scott Westerfeld
“You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.” IfsFeelsMayEnoughEnergyForceAdultsAssumingAverageThirtyBombsModestRobustHydrogenHydrogen BombPotential Energy Author:Bill Bryson
“I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, 'I'm busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.' WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you're watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?” IfsYearsLooksMeanBookWould BeJobsLastsCoursesReadingStuffAdultsBusyAverageTeenagerLast YearMiamiCsiCsi Miami Author:John Green
“Water: 35 Liters. Carbon: 20 Kg. Ammonia: 4 Liters. Lime: 1.5 Kg. Phosphorus: 800 g. Salt: 250 g. Saltpeter: 100g. Sulfur: 80g. Fluorine: 7.5 g. Iron: 5 g. Silicon: 3 g. And 15 other elements in small quantities. That's the total chemical makeup of the average adult body. For that matter, the elements found in a human being is all junk that you can buy in any market with a child's allowance. Humans are pretty cheaply made.” HumansChildrenMadeMatterBodyFoundWaterHuman BeingsElementsAdultsAverageMakeupIronChemicalsQuantitySaltCarbonJunkSiliconAllowanceLimesSulfurPhosphorus Author:Hiromu Arakawa