99 Percent Quotes

When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.

By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

At least eighty percent of millionaires are self-made. That is, they started with nothing but ambition and energy, the same way most of us start.

A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.

Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools.

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

Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.

Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.

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

I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but one hundred percent is affected by it.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.

One percent improvement in 1,000 things is better than 1,000% improvement in one thing.

Im share a lot of details, but 98 percent of my life is still private.

The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice.

If you are honest with yourself and can look into a mirror and believe that you have given 100 percent, you should feel proud. If you cannot, then there is more work to be done.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

A sense of humor isn't everything. It's only 90 percent of everything.

Modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there's a fifty percent divorce rate in round one and a sixty-five percent divorce rate in round two.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel.

Give 100 percent to everything you do and never give up.

Running is 80 percent mental.

About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.

Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.

Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials.

How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?

I was Chairman for two days. I had an airplane with my engines, hit a building I insured, was covered by a network I owned and I still have to increase earnings by 11 percent.

China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

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

Ninety-five percent of thought, emotion, and learning occur in the unconscious mind - that is, without our awareness.

Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.