Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
— George Washington Carver
Mouth-watering Ninety Nine quotations
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice.
That's what makes the jukebox play.
Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine.
Ninety-nine percent of everything you do in life is attitude.
If you have a relationship with God...you're going to learn to ask the one question in life that covers everything: How can I help you?
Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.
I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than percent of them threaten our health makes no sense. Many of the bacteria we're killing are our protectors.
We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person.
We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We’ve got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong.
You want to play house, you got to have a job.
You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out, so believe me, buddy, you've got nothing to apologize for.
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion.
It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
Success is ninety-nine percent failure.
Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.
Ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are merely playing at Bible study;
and therefore ninety-nine Christians in every hundred are mere weaklings, when they might be giants, both in their Christian life and in their service.
I'll always remember the day I broke ninety.
I had a few beers in the clubhouse and was so excited I forgot to play the back nine.
Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.
I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.
Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest!
Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.
I always say, or have said in the past, that ninety-nine and forty-four-hundredths of the audience does not pay any attention to the lighting, but one hundred percent is affected by it.
I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.
Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.
As I see it, out of a hundred marriages ninety-nine marriages are just licensed prostitution. They are not marriages. A marriage is only a real marriage when it grows out of love. Legal, illegal, does not matter. The real thing that matters is love.
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.
Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.
Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define;
Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.
At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.