Percent Quotes · Page 26

I may be married to a plastic surgeon, but I'm 98 percent real.

— Heather Dubrow

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

— William H. Macy

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

— Phil McGraw

Karen Handel has run a 100 percent negative campaign.

— Nathan Deal

I always ask myself, "Did I get one percent better today?"

— Benson Henderson

The key to success is failure… Success is made of 99 percent failure.

— James Dyson

For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes.

— Joseph M. Juran

One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.

— John McGraw

I think that something is fundamentally wrong if a person of his great wealth is only paying 13.9 percent effective tax rate…

— Terri Sewell

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

— Robert Ballard

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

— Anonymous

Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75…

— Steve Buyer

African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is…

— Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

One-hundred percent, even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if…

— Sam Smith

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply…

— Thomas A. Edison

Psychological studies reveal that 95 percent of everything we feel, think, and achieve is a result of a learned habit!

— Darren Hardy

We don't want to be prejudging outcomes here," she said of US opposition to scientific guidelines for rich nations to cut emissions…

— Paula Dobriansky

Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really…

— Mohsin Hamid

I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it,…

— George Saunders

Because 98 percent of our ideas are not great ideas, or everyone would be a billionaire. So yeah. That's something people have…

— Dax Shepard

Research cited by Robert Cohen has made the point that there is up to a gallon of extra mucus in the body…

— Gabriel Cousens

[In Mexico] they have a VAT tax. We're on a different system. When we sell into Mexico, there's a tax. When they…

— Donald Trump

The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're…

— L. Neil Smith

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…

— Tyra Banks

Faith and daily life, faith and work-these are not separate things. They are one and the same. To think of them as…

— Daisaku Ikeda

The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one…

— John Medina

And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it…

— Rajneesh

Well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and…

— Fred Brooks

Forests are breaking out all over America. New England has more forests since the Civil War. In 1880, New York State was…

— Jonah Goldberg

There were really funny characteristics about this guy [Richard Nixon], chief of which would be that he seemed to devote about 85…

— Harry Shearer

Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those…

— Barack Obama

People inside the theaters usually, not 100 percent but most of them, enjoy the movie. Usually they come with a small negative…

— Michel Hazanavicius

“Did you know that ninety-eight percent of statistics are made up on the spot?”

— Kim Harrington

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.

— Don Zimmer

The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.

— Big Pun

I keep anywhere between 5-10 percent of my net worth in venture ideas.

— Kevin O'Leary

Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.

— Rose George

Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.

— Martin Amis

Ninety percent of your job is done if you find the right cast.

— John Krasinski

In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.

— Barack Obama