Top 1200 Give 100 Percent Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Looking back, yes, I made too many comebacks. But each comeback I was 100 percent sure that I would win. I never came back for the money, because I didn't need it. The adulation I was getting anyway in other spheres. But I'm a guy who likes to see how close he can get to the edge of the mountain - that's what makes me tick.

I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like hes a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that youre on your way into the grave.

If there are 100 people, I don't anticipate all 100 liking my scenario - but I write it so at least one or two of them will love and get really into that particular story.

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

Ten percent of life is what happens; the other 90 percent is what you do about it.

Ask for 100% of what you want 100% of the time.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

Word of mouth is the primary factor behind 20 percent to 50 percent of all purchasing decisions.

Confidence is 10 percent hard work and 90 percent delusion.

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

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

By my estimation, dating was 1 percent confidence and 99 percent troubleshooting.

The challenge of ultrarunning is 90 percent mental, and the other 10 percent is all in our heads

Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country.

I just want to show that you don't have to be changing yourself 100 percent to be someone that you're not. You don't have to change yourself to be someone like your idol. You can be someone's idol just by being you. But also, it takes a lot of work and time to be that sort of person.

If you train 100% the result will be 100%.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent.

Ninety percent grind, 10 percent sleep. That's our motto.

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

I'm just as guilty for not doing anything as I am for doing things. Not with case (the 1994 sexual abuse conviction), but just my life. I was so scared of this responsibility that I was running away from it. But I see now that whether I show up for work or not, the evil forces are going to be at me. They're going to come 100 percent.

I was in the top 1 percent of football players. Indie guys are in the bottom 95 percent of wrestlers.

I am not a monster. I'm not all bad. Maybe 10 percent. I think I'm 90 percent good.

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

On a recent survey, 80 percent of golfers admitted cheating. The other 20 percent lied.

Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers.

Most are expecting 5 percent to 10 percent hikes, but there are rumblings of far nastier surprises.

I wouldn't want to manufacture cigarettes. But if I owned - we do own Costco. Do they sell them? Yes. So I don't have a problem owning stock in that. But I just wouldn't want to - I wouldn't want to do it myself. I basically think, if anything is sufficiently antisocial, society should do something about it. But that's a separate question. But - and I don't think there's any company that I have seen that's 100 percent pure.

There's something so awesome about being able to get up in front of a microphone and do exactly what you want. Stand-up is as close as you're ever going to get to being 100 percent in control of a situation artistically, and I don't understand why people wouldn't want to keep doing that.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

Golf is 20 percent talent and 80 percent management.

At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.

Until you become completely obsessed with your mission, no one will take you seriously. Until the world understands that you're not going away-that you are 100 percent committed and have complete and utter conviction and will persist in pursuing your project-you will not get the attention you need and the support you want.

I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.

I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't something I was ready to express to the public or to the press. I wasn't ready to come out. I wanted to perfect my voice and be 100 percent positive that I could come out right.

Covering Africa is 80 percent logistics and 20 percent reporting.

About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.

Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.

If I give $1,000 dollars I deserve to get back $100,000 because I am just, that's not greed!

Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

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

It's so easy to steal from the bottom 99 percent, but try stealing from the top one percent, and they put you under the jail.

I feel an obligation to those people who are willing to go lay their lives on the line. These are the same people that when we call on them, and we 100 percent agree as a country ... in our lifetime there's gonna be an event take place ... just like when 9/11 happened, everybody wanted to bring them to justice. When we called on the troops, they went in.

In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

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

I believe that a good comic script can succeed despite being drawn badly, but that a bad script can't be saved by good art. Of course, great writing and great illustration makes for a great comic 100 percent of the time.

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.

Ninety percent of selling is conviction and 10 percent is persuasion.