Kevin Gates
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand."
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Tony Robbins
Author, Life Coach
"In life, never spend more than 10 percent of your time on the problem, and spend at least 90 percent of your time on the solution."
Oprah Winfrey
Television host, producer, philanthropist
"One percent doubt is zero percent faith."
James Taylor
Singer-Songwriter
"I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music."
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%."
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"The concept of this so-called "TerraPower reactor" is that you, in the same reactor, you both burn and breed. So, instead of making plutonium and then extracting it, we take uranium - the 99.3 percent that you normally don't do anything with - we convert that, and we burn it."
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"Showing up is 80 percent of life."
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"If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before."
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"If it reenters its base, I have a rule to cut at least 50 percent of the position."
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"Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service."
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"Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with."
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"The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse."
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"99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses."
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"Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good."
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"Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal."
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"My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches."
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"Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much."
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"I always felt like I sucked at everything, that I could never find the thing that I liked. I auditioned and I probably sucked, but I had decided 100 percent that this is what I wanted to do."
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"We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil. We only have 2 percent of the reserves."
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"Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white."
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"Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard."
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"Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014."
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"I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter."
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"I am completely 100 percent honest in what I do and who I am, and I've got nothing to hide."
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"My priority is my family, absolutely, 100 percent."
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