Ninety Quotes

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.

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

Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?

People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.

Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.

The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

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

Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

Ninety percent of the time, you're going to hear no. It took me seven years to make 'Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored.' Nobody wanted to see the movie made. I got the movie made.

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

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

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state; nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.