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Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll

99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
- Anonymous

Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz

Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein

You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretzky

Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude to me is more important than facts.
It is more important than the past, than education, than money,
than circumstances, than failures, than success,
than what other people think or say or do.
It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill.
It will make or break a company ... a church ... a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day
regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
We cannot change our past ...
we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable.
The only thing we can do is play on the string we have,
and that is our attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
And so it is with you ...
we are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll

Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed
to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.
- Donella Meadows

You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions
as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them.
Becoming a scientist or engineer is.
- Dean Kamen

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.
- Paulina Rubio

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper.
About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer
is garbage that no one ever reads.
- Andy Rooney

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
- Gloria Swanson

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten
percent a bad reputation.
- Henry A. Kissinger

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent,
hardworking, honest Americans.
It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity.
But then, we elected them.
- Lily Tomlin

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry,
I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
- Adam Osborne

About half my designs are controlled fantasy,
15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
- Manolo Blahnik

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
- Colin Powell

Homesickness is nothing.
Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.
- John Cheever

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
- Fred Allen

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete.
Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated
in the bottom half of their classes.
- Al McGuire

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated,
let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he
does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
- Bill Cosby

As far as the press is concerned, they're going to
say what they want to say.
Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.
- Justin Timberlake

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself,
get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was
a one hundred percent effort that you gave -
win or lose.
- Gordie Howe

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong.
No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty
percent what people think you've got.
- Sophia Loren

They divided the city into three electoral wards,
and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people,
the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.
- John Hume

As a painter you're responsible yourself,
100 percent.
In film, you have the editor, the director,
the other actors.
It has the advantage of not being solitary.
- Sylvia Kristel

We expect that in the next years, the economy will improve.
And we expect that extreme poverty will drop from 22
percent to 11 percent by the year 2000.
- Alberto Fujimori

Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German
Law were not members of the Party.
- Hans Frank

Currently a level of unemployment of 7 percent or more
seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating,
a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.
- William Vickrey

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door,
but I'm not.
There's nothing seriously wrong with me,
and my heart is in 100 percent working order.
Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
- Bobby Darin

I love my DSL, but I love my WiFi more.
And I probably get on the Internet 40 percent to 50
percent more because of the combination of those technologies.
- Michael K. Powell

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent
of the cost is in the shipping.
People cannot eat shipping costs.
We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.
- Andrew Natsios

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work.
But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.
- Sandra Bernhard

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire,
hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.
- Don Zimmer

We believe that more than 4 percent of the children
in this country suffer ADHD...
We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.
- David Satcher

Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast.
- Bobby Jindal

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people
who make it is very low -
it's about 1 percent.
- Lee Majors

Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation
and distribution of drugs by 50 percent,
but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control
results are meager at best.
- Jan Schakowsky

Japan is an important ally of ours.
Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity,
60 percent of the GNP, two countries.
That's a statement in and of itself.
- Dan Quayle

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out.
I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
- Mike Rutherford

We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British
consumers will have access to the Internet,
whether it be through a personal computer,
a set-top box or a mobile phone.
- Richard Branson

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent,
I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts
in programs benefiting women and children.
- Coretta Scott King

Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at
least part of their lives in estuaries.
- Jim Gerlach

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.
- James Taylor

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands
to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent,
but it will create thousands of good U.S.
jobs.
- Bob Ney

In fact, Social Security is the only source of income
nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.
- Ginny B. Waite

But I have returned to one hundred percent playing this year.
I am fully back to playing full time.
- Miroslav Vitous

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules -
the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time,
and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
- Arthur Bloch

With our national savings rate well below one-percent,
it is imperative that the government embrace innovative
and cost-effective means of boosting personal savings.
- Jim Cooper

In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down
to four or five percent of the market,
and the remaining 95 percent were American.
It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.
- Wim Wenders

Ninety-nine percent of advertising doesn't sell much of anything.
- David Ogilvy

If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back.
That's what I was always told as a kid,
and It's worked for me so far!
- Justin Timberlake

We would like to carry out 100 percent,
or maybe more, of our scientific program;
I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.
- John L. Phillips

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math,
science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent
of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.
- Cathy McMorris

Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit,
and yet only two to three percent quit every year...
It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.
- David Satcher

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S.
workers born in Latin America had a combined gross
income of $450 billion last year,
of which 93 percent was spent locally.
- Luis Gutierrez

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine,
women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.
- Ronnie Hawkins

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define;
Of inspiration one percent,
of perspiration, ninety nine.
- Thomas A. Edison

More than 15 percent of the jobs in Ohio are tied in some way to agriculture.
A strong agriculture means a strong economy.
- John Fisher

Always think that in any area of the arts,
you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative,
original...
and the rest are generally following on,
copying.
- Hugh Hopper

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.
- Ruggiero Ricci

I'm definitely not at my best.
Honestly, I'm under 50 percent.
But I've won stuff under 50 percent before.
- Serena Williams

Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties.
The fence works.
There is a decline in the number of those terrorist
attacks against Israelis.
- Silvan Shalom

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.
- Patti LaBelle

I don't think anyone could write about another culture
and get it 100 percent accurate.
- Elizabeth George

Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without
prescription drug coverage should begin to see savings
of between 10 and 25 percent on their medications.
- Mike Rogers