Nine Tenths Quotes

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Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time. — Dale Dauten
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. — Francis Marion Crawford
Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right. — Pat Summitt
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. — Horace Walpole
Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time. — Andrew Marr
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. — Thomas Carlyle
I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened. — Andrew Carnegie
To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of… — Thomas Huxley
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed… — Thornton Wilder
The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action — Chester Barnard
An hour and thirty-one minutes after launch, my pressure altimeter halts at 103,300 feet. At ground control the radar altimeters also have stopped-on readings of… — Joseph Kittinger
Though my stabilization chute opens at 96,000 feet, I accelerate for 6,000 feet more before hitting a peak of 614 miles an hour, nine-tenths the… — Joseph Kittinger
There are three principles to remember if you are to teach a human being anything, and they are consistency, consistency, consistency.They are such fragile creatures… — Pam Houston
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. Liberty is not… — H. L. Mencken
History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the… — Thomas B. Macaulay
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. [It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success,… — Francis Marion Crawford
Possession is nine-tenths of the law. — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup. — Maggie Shipstead
Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness. — Aldo Leopold
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm,… — Edgar Allan Poe

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