I've found the 90-10 rule to be pretty true: 90 percent of what I come up with and write down is kinda 'eh,' and then somehow, someway, 10 percent of it happens to work out really great in my act.
This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.
In living life at 90 percent, the formula is life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you react to it.
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.
I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.
Man, I live out 90 percent of my songs and the other 10 percent... once in a while, I'll put myself in someone else's shoes and try to go down that road.
Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easily and the last 10 percent is going to take them 10 years.
Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion, just thinking foolishly that you will be able to do what you want to do
Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.
The challenge of ultrarunning is 90 percent mental, and the other 10 percent is all in our heads
I am not a monster. I'm not all bad. Maybe 10 percent. I think I'm 90 percent good.
Senator John Kyle claiming that over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Stephen Colbert: Over 90 percent, that is unbelievable...in that it is not true. Only 3 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Kyle just rounded it up to the nearest 90.