“I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsMayStillsCountryEnergyStrongMovementSourceAreasWingsAverageOilAlternativesTexasHippieRight WingDrillsTexanAlternative Energy Author:Jesse Metcalfe
“Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half.” CountryCertainHouseCitiesHalfAreasThirdsIncludingAverageZeroDiverseHousingVegasLas VegasRecessionsInaugurationOrlandoGround ZeroGreat RecessionHouse Prices Author:Mark Zandi
“GWEN is a superb system, in combination with cyclotron resonance, for producing behavioural alterations in the civilian population. The average strength of the steady geomagnetic field varies from place to place across the United States. Therefore, if one wished to resonate a specific ion in living things in a specific locality, one would require a specific frequency for that location. The spacing of GWEN transmitters 200 miles apart across the United States would allow such specific frequencies to be 'tailored' to the geomagnetic-field strength in each GWEN area.” IfsStatesUnitedUnited StatesFieldsAreasAveragePopulationMilesCombinationSteadyLocationLiving ThingsCiviliansFrequencyVaryResonanceSuperbAlterationsTailoredLocalityIonsSpacingMiles Apart Author:Robert O. Becker
“Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.” GivingAttentionPlansFailingAmountAreasAverageCease Author:Grant Cardone
“We have to find areas in our lives that we feel most uncomfortable about and want to change. I decided to push myself because it allowed me to give back. I have a scholarship program. When I found out the average age of a homeless person is 9½ years old, I said there must be something that I can do. Now, I am the spokesman for the National Coalition for the Homeless.” WantGivingFeelsYearsPersonsSaidI CanAgeFoundCan DoOur LivesAreasProgramDecidedAverageUncomfortableHomelessGiving BackScholarshipCoalitions Author:Farrah Gray
“You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.” PeopleIfsNextHouseWaterAreasAverageRestaurantsUrbanSeafoodSteakUrban AreasSteak House Author:Tilman J Fertitta
“The average student emerges at the end of the Ph.D. program, already middle-aged, overspecialized, poorly prepared for the world outside, and almost unemployable except in a narrow area of specialization. Large numbers of students for whom the program is inappropriate are trapped in it, because the Ph.D. has become a union card required for entry into the scientific job market.” WorldEndsJobsNumbersMiddleStudentsAreasProgramUnionsPreparedAverageCardsTrappedEntryLarge NumbersInappropriateMiddle AgedSpecialization Author:Freeman Dyson
“I'm sure if one turned one's mind back from grandiose faults to what is happening to the average man or woman or child in the rural areas, we will probably find that's where the energy for development is.” IfsMenMindChildrenEnergyDevelopmentHappeningsAreasFaultsAverageAverage ManGrandioseRural Areas Author:Chinua Achebe
“The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods, where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages, and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.” ChildrenStillsMightTodayChallengesLevelsCitiesTeacherNew YorkAreasAverageSpendingNeighborhoodNew York CityEducateContrastFairnessSalaryPoorestNew YorkersSemblance Author:Jonathan Kozol
“There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life ... the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.” HeartPersonsCharacterHandsLinesChanceResponsibilityRolesGreaterPlanetsHeroHigherCitizensAreasAverageRealmsPoundsStakesFragileVillainOrgansSooner Or LaterImplicationsChances AreDilemmaProvincesHeroinesCaprice Author:Lionel Shriver