Quotes of: Percent Keyword

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

Zooey Deschanel

The tobacco control movement provides a good model for how to achieve massive societal changes. In 1965, over 50 percent of men and 34 percent of women smoked. By 2010, only 23.5 percent of men and 17.9 percent of women were smoking (CDC 2011). These...

The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World

According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, 30 percent less thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium than it did in the 1960s. But the moder...

Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

[On hearing that 86% of gay teens have experienced harassment] Eighty-six percent? Eighty-six per-fuckin-cent WERE harassed?! That means fourteen per-fuckin-cent WEREN'T harassed? WHAT?! At MY school a hundred percent of the children - gay, straight,...

Penn Jillette

The principle of fair reduction is based on the concept of historic responsibility. Developed countries finished industrialising first. Thus, over the last 60 years, the developed countries, which represent 17 percent of the world's population, have ...

Yan Xuetong

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

Lou Holtz

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

Chris LeDoux

I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'

George Steinbrenner

Senator John Kyle claiming that over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Stephen Colbert: Over 90 percent, that is unbelievable...in that it is not true. Only 3 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Kyle just rounde...

Stephen Colbert

I'm definitely not at my best. Honestly, I'm under 50 percent. But I've won stuff under 50 percent before.

Serena Williams

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

Peter Diamandis

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent.

Miranda Kerr

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

William Wyler

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

Guy Kawasaki

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

Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of the women's vote to John McCain's 43 percent. It was the critical difference in the race.

Juan Williams

Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has soared? In 1960 Americans spent 17.5 percent of their income on food and 5.2 percent of national income on health care. Since then, tho...

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my opinion, it is useless without that 1 percent. It's like an engine without fuel -- can't get anywhere without it. Or ...

Robert Fanney

As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we now call the 99 percent - and I was a lot closer to the bottom than to the top of that 99 percent. At some point during the intervening yea...

Graydon Carter

99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.

Gents with No Cents