Top 92 Nine Percent Quotes
#1. Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
Tim Ferriss
#2. Why aren't you happy? It's because ninety-nine percent of everything you do, and think, and say, is for yourself -- and there isn't one.
Wei Wu Wei
#3. Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues.
Thomas Menino
#4. Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.
Linda Ronstadt
#5. Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#6. If I have a better idea, I say, 'Can we try one like this?' I try not to step on writers' toes, but ninety-nine percent of the time, it ends up in the movie, and sometimes it's the line that everyone remembers and quotes from the movie.
William Sadler
#7. I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.
Tony Bennett
#8. Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.
Cory Lidle
#9. Getting up way in advance of dawn is always a good idea. Nearly ninety-nine percent of the time when I have gotten up in the middle of the night for a shoot, something good always presents itself to offset the nagging tiredness and discomfort of losing sleep.
Peter Menzel
#10. Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.
M. F. Husain
#11. Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.
Susan Cain
#12. Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Thornton Wilder
#13. We have made progress from where we were when President Obama took office, when the economy - our economy had just contracted almost by nine percent.
Mitt Romney
#14. Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.
David Hasselhoff
#15. Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.
E. J. Gold
#16. Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
Willie Nelson
#17. Actually ninety-nine percent of my acting has nothing to do sci-fi or fantasy, I consider it a good part of my acting, and enjoy the roles I play.
Claudia Christian
#18. Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#19. By the way, I've been homeless for the past two years. Some of you may think, Aw, how sad. Others may think, Ha, ha, loser! But if you saw me on the street, ninety-nine percent of you would walk right past like I'm invisible. You'd pray, Don't let him ask me for money.
Rick Riordan
#20. Ninety-nine percent of men are okay with following the rules and doing what they're told. We're the other one percent, so we built our own world with our own rules.
Joanna Wylde
#21. In some way or another we are all agnostics. We don't believe in ninety-nine percent of Gods, and we don't know the ultimate reality.
Debasish Mridha
#22. At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.
Rankin
#23. Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
#24. I know how birth control works, big brother, and - spoiler alert - putting a wrapper on the banana is ninety-nine percent effective.
Penny Reid
#25. Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.
Benigno Aquino III
#26. "It's not just about Jen," he said. "It's about the entire romantic system. Ninety-nine percent of men are in love with the top one percent of women. And yet they often refuse to date us. It's a complete injustice.
Simon Rich
#27. We're not only the ninety-nine percent, we're the assistants to the one percent. There's power in that." I
Camille Perri
#28. Eighty-nine percent of what people learn comes through visual stimulation, 10 percent through audible stimulation, and 1 percent through other senses. So
John C. Maxwell
#29. Ninety-nine percent of everything you do in life is attitude. If you have a relationship with God ... you're going to learn to ask the one question in life that covers everything: How can I help you?
Walter Levine
#30. One percent of the population ruled - and they were all grafters - while the other ninety-nine percent live under the worst kind of feudalism.
David Halberstam
#31. One National Geographic survey revealed that 85 percent of Americans between ages eighteen and twenty-four were unable to locate either Afghanistan or Iraq on a map. Sixty-nine percent couldn't find Great Britain,
Patrick Smith
#32. Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty, humility, patience, and enthusiasm.
Wilferd Peterson
#33. Angel, getting you off is ninety-nine percent of the fun for me.
Sylvia Day
#34. Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.
Jan Brewer
#35. Tired?" he asks.
"Tired - yes. Angry - yes. Pissed off - ninety-nine percent of the time. Fun to be around - never."
Gabriel smiles. "Who wants fun when you can have interesting?
Sally Green
#36. I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure that I was dreaming.
Stephenie Meyer
#37. Life is one percent what happens to you, and ninety-nine percent how you respond to it.
Shubhra Krishan
#39. The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.
Lincoln Steffens
#40. If you ask Muslim women why they cover up, ninety-nine percent of them will say it's to avoid arousing men. Fuck that, where's your self-accountability?
Michael Muhammad Knight
#41. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.
Lincoln Steffens
#42. We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
George Washington Carver
#43. Something weird," Ben said. "You would think, with ninety-nine percent of us gone, the two percent would get along better."
Um, that would be one percent, Parish.
Rick Yancey
#44. Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.
Arianna Huffington
#45. then came a virus like an avenging angel, unsurvivable, a microbe that reduced the population of the fallen world by, what? There were no more statisticians by then, my angels, but shall we say ninety-nine point ninety-nine percent?
Emily St. John Mandel
#46. Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
David Sanborn
#47. Don't think you can watch all the romantic movies, soap operas, TV shows and read all the romantic books out there and not be affected. Ninety-nine percent of the romantic stuff out there is garbage ... and what you put in always comes out ... UGLIER!
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#48. To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.
Sandor Katz
#49. President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over nine percent, our deficits are growing, and small businesses are being burdened with regulations.
Timothy Griffin
#50. Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.
Madeline Zima
#51. There have been times I've been out, and my phone battery is at nine percent, and I was like, 'Time to go home.'
Hannibal Buress
#52. Ninety percent of my work is crap," he continued. "Another nine percent is mediocre, and then there are those rare gems that are actually useable.
Olivia Cunning
#53. The successes in the entertainment business are like one percent of the iceberg that you see, and the other ninety-nine percent, which is the rejection and the failure and the work and the toil and the sacrifice, is the rest of the iceberg that's below the water.
Jonathan Tucker
#54. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.
Susan Cain
#55. I am not against marriage - without marriage, ninety-nine percent jokes will disappear from the world. How I can be against marriage? I am all for it.
Rajneesh
#56. We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do not want civil power combined with religious power. I want to make it clear that I am committed as a matter of deep personal conviction to separation.
John F. Kennedy
#58. Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
#59. From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.
Cyril Connolly
#61. Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#62. Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
Rhonda Byrne
#63. The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.
J.K. Rowling
#64. Ninety-nine percent of the time, your parents never have to know, though. The school doesn't want your parents to think you became a fuckup here any more than you want your parents think you're a fuckup.
John Green
#65. Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.
Jack Welch
#66. And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#67. In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.
Tom Vilsack
#68. Ninety-nine percent of all surprises in business are negative.
Harold Geneen
#69. I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch
Ransom Riggs
#70. Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to
I just found out my mom does more dope than I do
Eminem
#71. There are some basic tenets that ninety-nine percent of all Wiccans follow, but at its core the faith is all about individual freedom. Wiccans believe that as long as you aren't hurting anyone else by doing it, you should be free to act and worship in whatever way you'd like.
Jim Butcher
#72. Ninety-nine percent of the people on the street will lick the flavor right off your Life Saver if you let them.
James Altucher
#73. Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.
David Ogilvy
#74. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
#75. If you just heard 90 percent of dentists recommend something, it's too statistical. Nine out of 10 says: Well, it's just virtually everyone. It leads you to think of that joke about the one dentist. But so much of communication.
Frank Luntz
#76. From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside activities as hiking, walking, fishing, beach play, and gardening, according to a study by Sandra Hofferth at the University of Maryland.
Richard Louv
#77. Defining a mono-racial church as one that has more than 80 percent of its membership consisting of a single racial group, nearly nine in ten (86 percent) congregations, which account for 80 percent of churchgoers, remain essentially mono-racial.46
Robert P. Jones
#78. Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.
William John Locke
#79. His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison
#80. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.
Bill Gates
#81. There are other advantages," continued the child. "For instance, if one rat were cornered by nine cats, on the average, each cat would be ten percent rat and the rat would be ninety percent cat. If you happened to be a rat, you can see how much nicer it would make things.
Norton Juster
#82. Veblen called it the price-system. Mills called it the Power Elite. It's probably no more than ninety-nine people who don't know what they are doing. They're involved in high finance. Fascinating form of gambling.
John Cage
#83. Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.
Nicholas D. Kristof
#84. Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.
Burton Malkiel
#85. in 2001, one Norwegian enthusiast even implemented Internet Protocol with a set of carrier pigeons. (Observers reported a disappointing 56 percent packet loss rate: rephrased in English, five out of the nine pigeons appeared to have wandered off, or have been eaten.)
Tung-Hui Hu
#86. I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but one hundred percent is affected by it.
Jennifer Tipton
#87. For women under thirty, the likelihood of being married had become astonishingly small: Today, only around 20 percent of Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine are wed,4 compared to the nearly 60 percent in 1960.
Rebecca Traister
#88. Indeed, many adults don't consider having children at all until they've deemed themselves good and ready: in 2008, 72 percent of college-educated women between the ages of twenty-five and twenty-nine had not yet had children.
Jennifer Senior
#89. I've heard that nature abhors a vacuum - though if that's true, then I can't figure why about ninety-nine zillion percent of creation is vacuum.
Jim Butcher
#90. The ultimate success of a product or service is 10 percent product quality and 90 percent sales. Nine
Darren Hardy
#91. Even in Australia I'd say 80 percent of our television was American. I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone. I used to sit with my mum when I was just nine years old, trying to guess what the twist would be. I love that kind of thing.
Jacki Weaver
#92. A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson
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