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.
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.
The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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.
Our mantra is that 90 percent of all television is bad, and ten percent has never been better. We make fun of that 90 percent.
By 2015, the top 1 percent of families took home more than 20 percent of income. Wealth distribution was 10 times worse than that: the families in the top 1 percent owned as much as the families in the bottom 90 percent.
To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts.
About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.
The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.
I am not a monster. I'm not all bad. Maybe 10 percent. I think I'm 90 percent good.
The challenge of ultrarunning is 90 percent mental, and the other 10 percent is all in our heads
Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.