Tenths Quotes
69 quotes by 56 authors
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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
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To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
— Francis Marion Crawford
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Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.
— Pat Summitt
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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
— Horace Walpole
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Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.
— Andrew Marr
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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
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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
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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
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Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.
— James Parton
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Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of…
— Richard Lindzen
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The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action
— Chester Barnard
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A world where one tenth of the population gets to be extremely wealthy, and six tenths very poor, is not, in the long run, a…
— Bill McKibben
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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