A Quote by Willie Nelson

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

Willie Nelson

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Choice First Jukebox Lovers Makes Nine Ninety Ninety-Nine Percent Percent Play World

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Willie Nelson
American - Musician
Born: April 29, 1933

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

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

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.

Douglas Adams

You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

Kaye Gibbons

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T.C. Boyle

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Sandor Katz

Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.

Jack Welch

Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.

Jan Brewer

And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart

Holly Goldberg Sloan

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Stephenie Meyer

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William John Locke

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Thornton Wilder

Only one percent of artists are really profitable and successful. Beyonce is one?tenth of one percent. When we talk about what she can do, ninety-nine percent of artists can't do that.