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"Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future." »John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
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"In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts." »Peter McWilliams
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"We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it." »Barbara Colorose
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"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
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"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." »Henry Kissinger
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"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." »Thomas Alva Edison
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"Richard Try an association such as Let's say the average person uses ten percent of his brain. How much do you use One and a half percent. The rest is filled with malted hops and bong resin." »Tommy Boy
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"Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying." »Irish Proverb
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"We use 10 percent of our brains. Imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other 60 percent." »Ellen DeGeneres
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"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five" »George Gordon Byron
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"When I was one-and-twenty,
I heard a wise man say,
Give pounds and crowns and guineas,
But not your heart away."
Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free."
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me." »A.E. Houseman
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"I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day." »Jesse Barfield
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"It has just been twenty-three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty-three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift." »Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
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"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts.... 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 R. Swindoll
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"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery." »Charles Dickens
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"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty." »Billy Wilder
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"It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him." »Helen Rowland
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"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything." »Thomas Alva Edison
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"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." »Wayne Gretzky
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"Ninety percent of everything is crap." »Theodore Sturgeon
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"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us." »Albert Einstein
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"80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent." »Langston Coleman
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"Earth is 98 percent full. Please delete anyone you can." »Anonymous
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"We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us." »Albert Einstein
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"Eighty percent of success is showing up." »Woody Allen
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"Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head." »Yogi Berra, Sports Illustrated
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"If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up." »Woody Allen
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