Life Is 10 Percent Quotes

#1. Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Charles R. Swindoll

#2. Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

Irving Berlin

#3. Worry less, enjoy more, because more often than not, things will work out anyway.

Jennifer O'Neill

#4. The lyrics are always the last thing I do. I always have a recording of basic tracks and maybe some of the lead work. I'll sit back and listen to it, and I'll just concentrate on what kind of feeling it gives me. My goal writing the lyrics is to not disrupt that feeling.

Tom Scholz

#5. You know, sitting in the car when they got back in and - first of all, it was relief. I was not - there were two get away cars or switch cars they were called. And, you know, the group tended to include everyone.

Patty Hearst

#6. Amazon tried to combat employee delinquency by using a point system to track how workers performed their jobs. Arriving late cost an employee half a point; failing to show up altogether was three points. Even calling in sick cost a point. An employee who collected six such demerits was let go.

Brad Stone

#7. The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

Sakyong Mipham

#8. If 10 percent of the population were to take a consciously ethical outlook on life and act accordingly, the resulting change would be more significant than any change of government,

Peter Singer

#9. You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

Danica Patrick

#10. Or maybe it was already too late; you only get one first love. She was mine, but I had not been hers. She was only going to look for some echo of it, and if I had made the right noises, that echo might have been me for a while.

Olivia Sudjic

#11. You know, you should really look at where Mitt has led his life, and where he's been financially. He's a very generous person. We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person that is trying to hide things, or do things? No.

Ann Romney

#12. Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives
you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

Brian Tracy

#13. Never let go of hope. One day you will see that it all has finally come together. What you have always wished for has finally come to be. You will look back and laugh at what has passed and you will ask yourself ... 'How did I get through all of that?

Charles L. Allen

#14. I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.

Yvon Chouinard

#15. It hurt us both when i held you from behind
because I couldn't change the weather with my arms

Mira Gonzalez

#16. taxes consumed less than 10 percent of national income in all four countries during the nineteenth century and up to World War I. This reflects the fact that the state at that time had very little involvement in economic and social life.

Thomas Piketty

#17. I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.

Yann Martel

#18. I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.

Charlize Theron

#19. In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution.

Tony Robbins

#20. It's more about balance for me. I used to be an all or nothing person. And now I would rather have a lifestyle change - rather than use the word 'diet' - where 90 percent of the time spend my life that way and 10 percent of the time have fun and do what my body feels like it needs or craves.

Julianne Hough

#21. Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never arch, and always playful, with a humor as dry as dust.

John Hodgman

#22. You have to be smart to get what you want.

Bryant McGill

#23. A space was quickly cleared in the crowd, and a rope placed about his neck, when from somewhere came the suggestion, "Burn him!" It ran like an electric current. Have you ever witnessed the transformation of human beings into savage beasts? Nothing can be more terrible.

James Weldon Johnson

#24. I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.

Christina Aguilera

#25. Only when I heard her bedroom door open and close did I give in to my beast instincts and do a wild animal dance around the room.

Alex Flinn