Ninety Nine Quotes

• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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• I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  1934 The World as I See It.

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

  Thornton Wilder

  Funny, People, Insanity

  1954 The Matchmaker, act 1.

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• Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Positivity, Soul, Honor

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• Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

  David Hasselhoff

  People, Call Me, Percent

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• Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

  William Feather

  Risk, Done, Hundred

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• One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Motivational, Badass

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• Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

  Cory Lidle

  Air, Land, Pilots

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• I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

  Tony Bennett

  Success, Careers, World

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• Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.

  M. F. Husain

  People, Stills, Percent

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• Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

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• If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, People, Ethics

  "The Roosevelt I Knew". Book by Frances Perkins, p. 5, 1946.

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• Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Hard Work, Science, Eight

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• Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Giving, Political, News

  "The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, 1984.

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• Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Hard Work, Science

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• Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

  Betty Comden

  Answers, Want, Hundred

  Betty Comden (1995). “Off Stage”

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• To wait. In our lives we know joy, anger, sorrow, and a hundred other emotions, but these emotions all together occupy a bare one percent of our time. The remaining ninety-nine percent is just living in waiting. I wait in momentary expectation, feeling as though my breasts are being crushed, for the sound in the corridor of the footsteps of happiness. Empty. Oh, life is too painful, the reality that confirms the universal belief that it is best not to be born.

  Osamu Dazai

  Reality, Expectations, Joy

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• Angel, getting you off is ninety-nine percent of the fun for me.

  Sylvia Day

  Fun, Angel, Percent

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.595, Penguin

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• In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Knowledge, Science, Psychology

  Lincoln Steffens (1936). “Lincoln Steffens speaking”

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• I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.

  Daphne du Maurier

  World, Thirty, Said

  Daphne du Maurier (1969). “My Cousin Rachel”

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• Happily for me, ninety-nine percent of all human life is spent simply repeating the same old actions, speaking the same tired clichés, moving like a zombie through the same steps of the dance we plodded through yesterday and the day before and the day before. It seems horribly dull and pointless-but it really makes a great deal of sense. After all, if you only have to follow the same path every day, you don't need to think at all. Considering how good humans are at any mental process more complicated than chewing, isn't that the best for everybody?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Moving, Tired, Thinking

  Jeff Lindsay (2011). “Double Dexter: Dexter Morgan (6)”, p.36, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mistake, Lying, Humanity

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• Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.

  Susan Cain

  Lying, Inspiration, Persistence

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.169, Broadway Books

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• And just being there is ninety-nine percent of what matters when your world falls apart

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Fall, What Matters, World

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.115, Penguin

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