1 Percent Quotes

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

The polls show that 10 percent of the public are ready to vote for me even though they don't know I'm running. We hope that figure won't drop when they learn I'm in the race.

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

Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.

You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

A lot of people don't realize that when you're trying to lose weight, or just trying to stay fit, 85 percent of it is what you eat, and 15 percent of it is how you work out.

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.

The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent.

Whenever you see the word cuisine used instead of the word food, be prepared to pay an additional eighty percent.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"

One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

I don't think we'll shoot 76 percent in a half ever again. That's crazy.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.

Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.

If you give 99 percent, you will make my job very easy.

If a team lives up to its role as favorite, it will have earned the World Cup. By the way, Adidas grew by about 30 percent in Brazil even without sponsoring the national team.

I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.

With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

We do have a Godly heritage in America, but we have been robbed - robbed by the 3 percent.

The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.

Many Syrians understand that the only option that exists is the option of peace, which means the option of compromise, .. Nobody can have 100 percent of his desires. He must compromise.

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon.

Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.

We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.

As a collegiate, I think you spend 50 percent of your time recruiting. It is a distasteful process.

Expenses should never exceed one percent of our purchases.

I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.

Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.

Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by tone of voice.

My philosophy is never start talking about 'if,' 'and,' 'but' or the past, because 90 percent of what follows will be negative.

I love trade. I'm a free trader, 100 percent. But we [the USA] need smart people making the deals, and we don't have smart people making the deals.

America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.

I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.

Ninety-five percent of our wool is going to China.

Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.

According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.

You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.

If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.

We still have 10 percent of the sharks. We still have half of the coral reefs. However, if we wait another 50 years, opportunities might well be gone.

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.

If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.

Ninety percent of what youre saying isnt coming out of your mouth.

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.