“I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.” IfsThinkingFeelsEndsEnjoyWeekOne DayPercentIdealsThirdsDefinitionsMiserableUrgesWhere You Are Author:Jo Nesbo
“I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.” EndsPiecesPercentIntenseDramaticPilotsHbo Author:Donal Logue
“The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.” EndsMillionsSuccessfulTenPercentInvestorsProbabilityCoinsConsecutiveTossers Book:The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World Source: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
“After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you're still more than ten percent ahead in the end. Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client's really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent.” WayFeelsShouldWritingYearsStillsEndsCoursesPayToo MuchTenPercentAgentsMore MoneyClients Author:Roger Zelazny