Best 80's Quotes

#1. In 1971, 73 percent of incoming freshmen said that it is essential or very important to "develop a meaningful philosophy of life," 37 percent to be "very well-off financially" (not well-off, note, but very well-off). By 2011, the numbers were almost reversed, 47 percent and 80 percent, respectively. - Author: William Deresiewicz

#2. Would say about 80 to 90 percent of most people's thinking is not only repetitive and useless, but because of its dysfunctional and often negative nature, much of it is also harmful. Observe - Author: Eckhart Tolle

#3. When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept. - Author: Emeril Lagasse

#4. Showing up is 80% of life. - Author: Woody Allen

#5. I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air. - Author: Bob Costas

#6. I'm tearing down Route 80 East, the sun's on my right side. I'm drunk, but my vision's good. - Author: Lou Reed

#7. Agriculture is the #1 source of deforestation. By some estimates it accounts for 80% of the forests chopped down in the tropics. - Author: Ramez Naam

#8. Over the years, I've had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don't think I look intimidating, but I'm sure other people have their opinions. - Author: Vinnie Jones

#9. Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever. - Author: Charlie Trotter

#10. Ego-tendencies. Like a magnet, the new centre [i.e., self] attracts to itself that which is proper to it.80 As a - Author: C. G. Jung

#11. The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 80 to upward of 100 people; of designers, engineers, boat builders, an incredible group of people, and there are a lot of nationalities in New Zealand's team. - Author: James Spithill

#12. I have said countless times that unless you are delivering a product and service that is really needed and unless you are doing it really well, you don't stick around for 80 years. - Author: Ashley Judd

#13. After all, most of us have lived lives based on commitments made without any way of knowing where they would lead. The uncertainty is an essential element in commitment, the acceptance of consequences an essential element in fidelity. [p. 80] - Author: Mary Catherine Bateson

#14. Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation. - Author: Grantland Rice

#15. Emotional intelligence accounts for 80 percent of career success. - Author: Daniel Goleman

#16. A level 4 leader's greatest asset is his ability to engage, empower, and equip his people; this is what creates the momentum for a significant change in the organization. He invests 80% in his people and 20% in the process. - Author: Farshad Asl

#17. I was an 80's/90's baby so you went to the movie theater every weekend and there was one on, whether it was Stallone, Van Damme, Seagal or Schwarzenegger himself. - Author: Channing Tatum

#18. A good marriage is at least 80% good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. - Author: Nanette Newman

#19. Hands on hips, Jade snickered. "I'm invincible. Go ahead and give it your best shot."
"I wonder how invincible you'd be if I shoved an M-80 up your ass? - Author: Jus Accardo

#20. I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well. - Author: Yuichiro Miura

#21. The best rush in the world is getting something at 80 percent off. - Author: Terry McMillan

#22. Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. - Author: Barbara Kingsolver

#23. I hate being cold and I hate being wet and around 80% percent of this film I was cold and another 60% I was cold and wet, so it wasn't the best shoot for me. - Author: Morris Chestnut

#24. Food redistribution is one of the best win-win solutions for food waste avoidance. Food companies can often save money by donating food rather than paying the £80 or so per tonne in landfill tax and disposal costs. - Author: Tristram Stuart

#25. The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth with workers, ... Roughly 80 percent of those surveyed offer bonus programs and 401(k) or profit-sharing plans ... as they compete for the best and brightest workforce. - Author: Jerry Jasinowski

#26. If you don't actively and decidedly choose to be the best, you automatically default to the lower 80% in your field. - Author: Brian Tracy

#27. The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended. - Author: George MacDonald

#28. Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see an 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair the same way they see a T80 tank; they're both just a series of zeros and ones. - Author: P. W. Singer

#29. Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent. - Author: Nate Corddry

#30. Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome - so this is a time to ask yourself when good enough is enough and then stop. - Author: Mira Kirshenbaum

#31. I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time. - Author: Tom Berenger

#32. Whoever said "Success is 80% Joy and 20% Hardwork" must have chased the latter 20% not ignoring the first 80%. Follow the Joy route and the power is already lost. - Author: Priyavrat Thareja

#33. Around 80 per cent of my money goes to charity. - Author: Heather Mills

#34. I've just grown a little disappointed with 'Muppets in the Old West', 'Muppets Under Water' and all these weird concept movies. I just want to go take it back to the early 80's, when it was about the Muppets trying to put on a show. That's what I'm trying to bring back. - Author: Jason Segel

#35. A good army composition is: 10 Giants, 60 Archers, 6-10 Wall Breakers & around 80-ish Goblins. - Author: 2UP GUIDES

#36. It was a real rough year and a half. I was getting 80 shots every four weeks. - Author: David Gest

#37. The pitch count situatio-it doesn't matter if you throw 120 or 80, whatever. It's the quality of pitches that you throw. - Author: Eli Manning

#38. I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds and skinny as a bean. - Author: Heidi Klum

#39. I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature. - Author: Naguib Mahfouz

#40. When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do a meet-and-greet with 60 to 80 people every night. It's something I love doing, and I would say that's probably more fans than most artists bring backstage after a show. - Author: Luke Bryan

#41. There's a saying about ranch women. When they're 30, they look 50. When they're 80, they look 50. - Author: Craig Lancaster

#42. Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. - Author: Neville Marriner

#43. 80% of people work for money.
The rest are called successful people. - Author: Dhaval Gajera

#44. Ironically, the possibility that the president dodged his military service has increased his approval ratings with Democrats by 80 percent. - Author: Craig Kilborn

#45. It's been 80 years since the Senate has confirmed a Supreme Court nominee who was nominated during an election. And particularly when the court hangs in the balance, it makes no sense whatsoever to give Barack Obama the power to jam through a judge in the final election year. - Author: Ted Cruz

#46. I believe that the future is determined by the great public universities. They educate 80 percent of the students and make the American Dream available. - Author: Gordon Gee

#47. One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?' - Author: Trent Reznor

#48. I relate more to the fact that 80-inch plasma has just started to become ubiquitous and in people's homes the fairly decent 5.1 sound system and the big screen isn't that out of reach. - Author: Michael Mann

#49. If you give only 80 percent leadership, your dog will give you 80 percent following. And the other 20 percent of the time he will run the show. If you give your dog any opportunity for him to lead you, he will take it. - Author: Cesar Millan

#50. Environmental problems cannot be resolved here the way they are resolved in other countries. I heard that 80 per cent of the environmental problems in the U.S. are solved in court. That can't happen here. - Author: Ma Jun

#51. Pareto's Law can be summarized as follows: 80% of the outputs
result from 20% of the inputs. - Author: Timothy Ferriss

#52. I have read all of James Patterson's Books except for the last 5.I have over 80 of his books. - Author: Bridget Of Sweden