“It’s a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best—not a percent better or a percent worse than that.” TryingInterestingPercentAbsolutesVery InterestingInteresting Things Author:Kai Greene
“On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.” LevelsReturnPercentAbsolutesInvestingAverageAssetsAllocationVariabilityAsset Allocation Author:Roger G. Ibbotson
“Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers.” WellsMeanChildrenDoneTogetherMotherPoorPovertyPlanetsPercentAbsolutesMajorityPopulationRefugee Book:Saturday's Child: A Memoir Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir
“When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent - total, absolute - the screen is empty, the film has disappeared. This is the state of meditation: when there are no thoughts, no feelings - nothing moves, everything stops. There is tremendous serenity. Out of this serenity, silence, peace, a new kind of experience arises, new flowers blossom.” MindKindStatesFeelingsFilmMovingSilenceMeditationFlowerTenPercentHundredEmptyAbsolutesScreensAriseSerenityNinetyFlower Blossom Author:Rajneesh
“Women represent 70 percent of the 1.3 billion people in our world who live in absolute poverty. Consequently, as Joan Holmes, president of the Hunger Project, points out, any realistic efforts to change patterns of chronic hunger and poverty require changing traditions of discrimination against women.” PeopleWorldPresidentEffortPovertyProjectsPercentTraditionAbsolutesHungerPatternsBillionsDiscriminationOur WorldRealisticHolmesHunger And Poverty Book:The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics Source: The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics