Top 100 90 Quotes
#1. A human being at rest runs on 90 watts. That's how much power you need just to lie down. And if you're a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you'll need about 250 watts. That's how much energy it takes to run about and find food.
Geoffrey West
#2. We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.
Charles R. Swindoll
#3. So, what is a stroke? In about 90 per cent of strokes, it's the result of blood flow to part of the brain getting cut off, depriving it of oxygen and killing off the part fed by the clogged artery.
Michael Greger
#4. But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.
Dwight Yoakam
#5. One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.
Brian Tracy
#6. The Screen Actors Guild numbers are frightening: Something like 90 percent of the roles are for men, 5 percent are for livestock and 5 percent are for women.
Melanie Mayron
#7. gymnasts retire at 20, cricketers at 34, actresses at 32, actors at 75, salesmen at 50, other employees at 58 or 60 years, and doctors and lawyers when their bodies do not listen to their minds. Of course, one class beats them all - politicians retire at 90!
P.V. Subramanyam
#8. If you only ever give 90% in training then you will only ever give 90% when it matters.
Michael Owen
#9. When the guilty verdict was handed down, I walked outside and saw a rainbow encircling the sun. Everyone in Monrovia could see it. It was a hot day, 80 or 90 degrees. I don't remember seeing any raindrops fall. I thought, this is a sign.
Leymah Gbowee
#10. So how, one wonders, does Lean,[i] the hot business methodology of the past two decades, continue to thrive when companies that sign up for it have been dropping out at a rate of more than 90%?
Employee X
#12. My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
Alex Haley
#13. A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.
William Bennett
#14. Most of the stats say that 90% of people who buy a book or check one out of a library would never get past the first chapter. To me, the title better say everything there is to say about the book.
Larry Winget
#15. Remember that we remember very little! 10% of what we read or hear 50% of what we hear and see 80% of what we say 90% of what we say while doing For
Imran Umar
#16. O-90 sat over the notebook, her head leaning toward her left shoulder, and making such an effort that her tongue was pushing her left cheek out. She looked like such a child, so charming. And so I felt good all over, clear, simple ...
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#17. In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.
Madeleine Stowe
#18. Once you've been on tour six, seven years, you get an idea of what works and what doesn't work universally. There will be some crowds that we just can't play a song, but we've got 90% of a show that we know is going to be a hit with the Lupe Fiasco fan. I think the catering has already been done.
Lupe Fiasco
#19. A well-trained marathoner will select a stride length that is somewhere between 75 and 90 percent of her total height. This means that she has less of a vertical displacement requirement.
Jim Gourley
#20. It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.
Bryan Cranston
#21. The fashionable term now is "Big Data." IBM estimates that we are generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day, more than 90 percent of which was created in the last two years.36
Nate Silver
#22. By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.
Sylvia Earle
#23. A game lasts 90 minutes. And how long are 90 minutes? How long are they without society? And who bares them?
Ilse Aichinger
#24. An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.
Rusty Schweickart
#25. If you handed [character] a glass that was 90% full, he'd tell you that the 10% empty part proved that no one really cared about water.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#26. Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope
Camille Paglia
#27. I'll tell you, I'm loving everything Betty White's doing. She's 90!
Marla Gibbs
#28. If I were to open a corner store, I'd call it 90 Degrees.
Jarod Kintz
#29. No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling.
Allen West
#30. Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker's toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.
John McAfee
#31. So we go through in the beginning of the night, we go into the really deep stages of sleep and we actually cycle through. So, when you go down to the deep stage, then you go back up and you actually come into something called REM sleep, which is after about 90 minutes.
Shelby Harris
#32. Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me as long as it doesn't bother them that they're not hearing 90 percent of the music that way.
Prince
#33. General Motors is alive and kicking today, it is because in 2009 President Obama's administration wrote off 90 percent of its debt.
Yanis Varoufakis
#34. Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.
Tommy Steele
#35. The thing with sculpture is, 90% of the time, when I pass a piece of sculpture, it's in public or somewhere, and it's just, how inconvenient that that's there. It takes up so much room, and it's so oppressive.
John Lurie
#36. aphorism 90:
I am incorrigible. I would have every object of the universe mechanically predictable but myself.
Matt Berry
#37. I read Parker's Spenser series in college. When it comes to detective novels, 90 percent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it.
Harlan Coben
#38. The real challenge of being a flight attendant is getting people out. The training requires that they demonstrate they can evacuate an aircraft within 90 seconds, but of course, a lot of stuff that is easy to do in training turns out to be tough in practice.
Philip Greenspun
#39. 90% of life is showing up. I'm staying home to wait for the other 10%.
Brian Spellman
#40. Age, they say, is only important if you're cheese. or a wine. They also say, if you are stuck behind one on a golf course, that a tree is 90 per cent air. How come, then, that you invariably send your ball crashing into the remaining 10 per cent?
Terry Wogan
#41. I played [baseball] in college, so it wasn't that much a stretch. But I would say the main thing for guys who hadn't played before it's just one word - swagger. If you have swagger on the field, and look like you know how to play, that's 90% of it.
Tyler Hoechlin
#42. In 90 percent of cases, you could tell within a page or two whether the writer could write.
Jonathan Galassi
#43. To the audience, it's like I'm changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show's almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.
Steven Wright
#44. Yoga is my luxury workout. If I'm on vacation or I have a day off, I love a 90-minute yoga class. It's a really strong workout, but it takes a little bit longer.
Alison Sweeney
#45. Think not that when thou art dry and darksom in the presence of God, with faith and silence, that thou do'st nothing, that thou losest time, and that thou are idle, because not to wait on God, according to the saying of St. Bernard (Tom.5.in Fract. de vit. solit.c.8.p. 90.), is the greatest idleness
Miguel De Molinos
#46. I miss the Bay Area - the kind of laid-back lifestyle. Because in Hong Kong, you're going, like, 90 miles an hour, which is fun when you're young.
Daniel Wu
#47. In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it can sustain itself.
Paul Feig
#48. 90% of relationship issues are caused by misunderstandings, 9.9% by conflicts of interest. Luckily, ladies and gentlemen can always come to an agreement.
Stefan Emunds
#49. A Canadian woman was sentenced to 90 days in jail on Thursday for causing two deaths in 2010 when she stopped her car on a Quebec highway to help a group of ducklings crossing the road.
Anonymous
#50. Do you know how much land is under ice, rock and snow? Do you know why 90 percent of us live within 100 kilometres of the U.S. border? We have this idea we're a vast country. But the reality is that a lot of it, a huge amount, is uninhabitable.
David Suzuki
#51. You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.
Robert Breault
#52. Growth, 60 percent of India's workforce is self-employed, and 90 percent of India's labor force works in the unorganized sector.11
Arundhati Roy
#53. As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental."
Yogi Berra
#54. Racquetball is the only sport where simultaneously you can be looking at the ball and it'll hit you in the back of the head at 90 miles per hour.
Brian Regan
#55. Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development.
Darren L Johnson
#56. I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
Gerhard Schroder
#57. I sing songs from the theater and pop songs. When I say 'pop songs,' I mean from the 90's. And I tell jokes. So it's sort of a stand up show meets a concert - not your traditional lounging across a piano cabaret show. It's much looser.
Laura Benanti
#58. The United States, despite an active ideology that preaches equality, in fact has the most unequal distribution of wealth of any industrialized nation (Philips, 1988). The top one percent of the population controls over 70 percent of the wealth, and the top 5 percent control over 90 percent.9
Dhati Lewis
#59. A student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison spent 90 days technology free. He went without a cell phone, Facebook, Twitter, or any social media of any kind. And you know what really improved? His driving!
Jay Leno
#60. This was football played at the speed of ice hockey and the ball was in play for only 53 minutes of the 90. The Premiership at its highest level is enthralling, edge-of-the-seat stuff, but sometimes it is too fast and frenetic for its own good.
Daniel Taylor
#61. As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.
Luis Gutierrez
#62. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens and 90% how I react to it.
Neil Pasricha
#64. Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.
John Barrow
#65. 90 percent of the corn and cotton and 93 percent of the soy-beans planted in the U.S. last year were genetically modified.
Anonymous
#66. The advantage doesn't come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I'm sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy's worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace.
Landon Donovan
#67. I can play the flute. Music was my favourite A-level, and I used to love composing my and stylising my voice to sound like 90's singing sensation Tori Amos.
Erin O'Connor
#68. The unprecedented development of science and technology ... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today.
Robert Platt
#69. We've seen filibusters of bills and nominations that ultimately passed with 90 or more votes. Why filibuster something that has that kind of support? Just to slow down the process and keep the Senate from working.
Elizabeth Warren
#70. I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.
Derek Kilmer
#71. From its conception and that one and only meeting, 'HITNRUN' took about 90 days to prepare its release. If that's what freedom feels like, 'HITNRUN' is what it sounds like.
Prince
#72. People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.
Mike Tyson
#73. Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.
Gary Miller
#74. Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
Jim Rohn
#75. I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.
Jesse Williams
#76. I followed most of the 80's bands into the 90's as most of those folks who hadn't moved away were all still active. However, there was a point when I lost track of the new bands coming up.
Mark Edwards
#77. three hundred trout are required to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, which must consume 27 million grasshoppers, which live off of 1,000 tons of grass."10
Jeremy Rifkin
#78. My grandmother once told me, "Relationships are work, honey, and they aren't 50/50. Some days when I get up I only feel like giving 10%, then your granddaddy has to give 90% that day. But there is always 100% love.
Leigh Ann Lunsford
#79. I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge of showing up and getting up there to spill my guts and connect with my loyal folks.
Paula Cole
#80. Putting a photo into your LinkedIn stream increases engagement up to 90%.
Jason Miller
#81. A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.
Cynthia Heimel
#82. Personally I'm hoping to spend the last years of my life plugged into a real life MMORPG simulation that makes me think and feel like I'm 18 again while my 90 year old body lies in a tube somewhere getting fed thru an IV. Be a great way to finish up a life.
Drew Curtis
#83. I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
Patrice O'Neal
#84. Mixtapes are extremely important, especially for New York or North East artists. They allow you to be creative, to get feedback and criticism, but most of all, it gets your name out there. I would say about 90-100% of my success was down to the mixtapes.
Joe Budden
#85. We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.
Warren Buffett
#86. Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.
Nathan Myhrvold
#87. Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear.
William Schutz
#88. Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
Tina Fey
#89. Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.
Mariah Carey
#90. Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area.
Xaviera Hollander
#91. I live on a bicycle ... I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles.
Guy Ritchie
#92. I'm about 90 percent vegan. I think veganism is really well suited for training, at least for me anyway.
Alanis Morissette
#93. I had great inspiration from a Japanese composer named Toru Takemitsu. He wrote over 90 film scores and a lot of concert music, a lot of classical music, and he gave me a lot of inspiration, as well as composers from other countries.
Howard Shore
#94. The main reason that over 90 percent of the American public struggles financially is because they play not to lose. They don't play to win.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#96. I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking, see, but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
#98. Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
Edward De Bono
#99. 90. Being Set at meat Scratch not, neither Spit, Cough, or blow your Nose except there's a Necessity for it.
George Washington
#100. Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90
minutes
Bobby Robson
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