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“If I am not playing at one hundred percent, it is going to be very difficult for me to win.”

“If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.”

Ifs Failing Capable Percent Block Keep Going Seventies

Author:Mike Lowell

“If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can't be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?”

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Book:How to win friends & influence people

Source: How to win friends & influence people

“Here we go again. Pandering to the .3 percent of the American population that consider themselves transgender. Now I get to explain this to my 8-year-old, if I just wanted to watch a nice family show with some nice music.”

Ifs Years Shows Wanted Watches Nice Percent Population Transgender Some Nice Nice Family Here We Go Again

Author:Gretchen Carlson

“When I got a chance to rap, I just busted my ass. When I got a chance to act, I busted my ass. Anytime I get a chance. I'm not wasting time. I won't do it if I'm not doing it 110 percent. You've got to work hard if you want to play hard. I like to play, but I know I gotta bust my ass.”

Ifs Knows Want Hard Play Chance Hard Work Percent Rap Ass Wasting Time Play Hard Busted Not Wasting Time

Author:Ice T

“If you have loans, the first thing you want to do is say, "Okay, look I have a credit card, if I really need to borrow, I have this emergency money that I can get, but for now there is no reason for me to keep cash at zero percent interest rate and at the same time, pay all of this money out. So, I think people need to figure out quickly how to pay loans and how much cash they should really keep.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Needs Should Firsts Looks I Can Reason Interest Pay Figures Percent Okay Rate Credit Cards No Reason Zero Cash Emergencies Loan Credit Card Interest Rate

Author:Dan Ariely

“Globally local commerce is a $12 to $14 trillion market. If we get 10 percent of that, we'll be very happy.”

Ifs Percent Locals Commerce Very Happy

Author:Andrew Mason

“Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.”

Ifs Has Beens Would Be Film Actors Acting Talent Ego Percent Size Granted Homework Film Acting

Author:Rod Steiger

“The values my mother taught me were like, if you're going to do something, don't half-ass it. I remember her literally saying that to me. Like the first time I ever heard the term half-ass was coming from my mother's lips. I was probably 8 or 9. If you're going to do something, go ahead and throw 115 percent at it, and if you get 100 percent back, well, there you go - you're perfect.”

Ifs Firsts Wells Remember Mother Values Term Perfect Half Heard Taught Percent First Time Lips Ass

Author:Justin Timberlake

“I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.”

Ifs Facts Moving Guy Found Waiting Perfect Business Economy Five Crazy Regret Percent Personal Growth Seventies Never Regret I Never Regret

Author:Lee Iacocca

“If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.”

Ifs Guy Economy Trouble Percent Jerk

Author:Lee Iacocca

“If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... How would I be? What would I do? We may now care for each Earthian individual at a sustainable billionaire's level of affluence while living exclusively on less than 1 percent of our planet's daily energy income from our cosmically designed nuclear reactor, the Sun, optimally located 92 million safe miles away from us.”

“There are three important principles to Graham's approach. [The first is to look at stocks as fractional shares of a business, which] gives you an entirely different view than most people who are in the market. [The second principle is the margin-of-safety concept, which] gives you the competitive advantage. [The third is having a true investor's attitude toward the stock market, which] if you have that attitude, you start out ahead of 99 percent of all the people who are operating in the stock market - it's an enormous advantage.”

“If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.”

“If I go down, it's never easy. At least my opponent knows they have to go to the end of the earth to take me out no matter what the circumstances. I do try to compete. Even if it's not your best day, I just try to walk off the court knowing I gave 100,000 percent.”

Ifs Knows Trying Ends Matter Earth Easy Walks Knowing Circumstances Percent No Matter What Court Opponents Take Me

Author:Venus Williams

“We now know that we are more insignificant than we ever imagined. If you get rid of everything we see, the universe is essentially the same. We constitute a 1 percent bit of pollution in a universe . . . we are completely irrelevant.”

Ifs Knows Universe Bits Percent Pollution Irrelevant Insignificant

Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

“Well over half of the time you spend working on a project (on the order of 70 percent) is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. Consequently, even if a tool did everything except the thinking for you - if it wrote 100 percent of the code, wrote 100 percent of the documentation, did 100 percent of the testing, burned the CD-ROMs, put them in boxes, and mailed them to your customers - the best you could hope for would be a 30 percent improvement in productivity. In order to do better than that, you have to change the way you think.”

Ifs Thinking Way Wells Matter Would Be Order Half Projects Percent Tools Boxes Customers Productivity Improvement Code Burned Testing Cds Documentation

Author:Fred Brooks

“Trust is the great simplifier. If people in business told the truth, 80 to 90 percent of their problems would disappear.”

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Author:William Schutz

“If you talk privately to our tech companies, our pharmaceutical companies, our high-end manufacturing companies, the high end of America, where the good-paying jobs are, China is not letting them in unless China gets to steal their intellectual property in a company that`s 51 percent owned by the Chinese.”

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Author:Charles Schumer

“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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Author:Dale Carnegie

“Real divas give 150 percent. If they don't have the right dress, they'll go out in whatever they have. If there are no microphones, they'll still put on a show. They are people who put their heart and soul in what they do.”

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Author:Patti LaBelle

“Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?”

Ifs Humans Use Used Human Beings Brain Imagine Ten Percent Accomplish Sixty

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Ninety percent of a shirt that not only was bright purple and green but with a design on it that, if you moved too quickly, might cause a seizure in an unsuspecting onlooker.”

Ifs Might Causes Design Percent Green Moved Shirts Ninety Purple Seizures Unsuspecting

Author:Lewis Black

“When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.”

Ifs Way Trying Play Character Impossible Modern Normal Percent Gravity Jeans Costumes Diminish Larger Than Life Center Of Gravity

Author:Ray Stevenson

“If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.”

Ifs Stills Moving Black Community Church Situation Doors Majors Percent Institutions Folks Black Community Black Church

Author:Cornel West

“Here's the thing: If you're so far left you actually believe that somebody owes you a job, citizenship and a heart transplant, you're mentally ill. If you're so far right that you actually believe that somebody who doesn't have a job and is not a citizen deserves to have their heart cut out and sold on eBay, and you get to keep 80 percent of the profit - you're mentally ill.”

Ifs Believe Heart Jobs Left Cutting Citizens Percent Deserve Ill Profit Citizenship Mentally Ill Transplants Ebay Heart Transplant

Author:Christopher Titus

“You can't take everything that is offered to you. I pass on a lot of stuff, because I truly believe that I will shine better if I could do it 200 percent rather than do it 80 percent and make it so-so.”

Ifs Believe Stuff Percent Shining If I Could

Author:J. B. Smoove

“If you want to find the cool, anti-establishment rebels who don't answer to The Man on college campuses today, you have to go to a meeting of the College Republicans. They are rebelling against at least 99 percent of their professors.”

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Author:Ann Coulter

“Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.”

Ifs Giving Inspiration Night Basketball Percent Court Criticize Every Night Basketball Success Give 100 Percent

Author:LeBron James

“If I worried about that, I wouldn't have made a single record in my whole career. I think more and more, audiences appreciate something that is distinctive and different. Everyone always throws out this figure, 'Jazz is now down to three percent of the total record sales.' So does that mean it is not important? I think if we agree that human culture itself is important, then I think those three percent take on a greater significance.”

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Author:Dave Douglas

“As far as the refugees are concerned, it's not that America doesn't want to accept refugees.t's that we may not be able to, because this is an issue we have to be 100 percent right on. If we allow 9,999 Syrian refugees into the United States, and all of them are good people, but we allow one person in who's an ISIS killer - we just get one person wrong, we've got a serious problem.”

People Ifs Want May Persons States Problem Able America United Accepting United States Issues Serious Percent Concerned Good People Killers Refugee Isis Syrian Refugees

Author:Marco Rubio

“The Hispanic population grew by 4.7 percent last year, while blacks expanded by 1.5 percent and whites by a paltry 0.3 percent. Hispanics cast 6 percent of the vote in 1990 and 12 percent in 2000. If their numbers expand at the current pace, they will be up to 18 percent in 2010 and 24 percent in 2020. With one-third of Hispanics voting Republican, they are the jump ball in American politics. As this vote goes, so goes the future.”

Ifs Years Lasts Numbers Grew Republican Percent Vote Thirds Balls Casts Population Currents Voting Pace Last Year American Politics Hispanic Voting Republican

Author:Dick Morris

“The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or profession. If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.”

“There are no guarantees in life, but it is a sure thing that you will get back what you give. If you give 100 percent of your attention, energy, and time to a thing, you will get exactly that back. Make sure you give all that you have to make sure you will get all that you need.”

Ifs Needs Giving Energy Attention Percent Guarantees Get Back Sure Thing Give 100 Percent Guarantees In Life

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“I regard psychiatry as fifty percent bunk, thirty percent fraud, ten percent parrot talk, and the remaining ten percent just a fancy lingo for the common sense we have had for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, if we ever had the guts to read.”

Ifs Years Common Ten Percent Regard Common Sense Thirty Fancy Fifty Guts Fraud Psychiatry Parrots Bunk

Author:Raymond Chandler

“Fifty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama is Muslim. And 66 percent of Trump voters believe President Obama is Muslim. If you hear anyone trying to explain the rise of Donald Trump without including that fact, then you`re hearing someone who doesn`t know what they`re talking about.”

Ifs Knows Trying Believe Facts President Talking Four Trump Republican Percent Including Hearing Barack Fifty Voters President Obama President Barack Obama

Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“Probably about 35 percent of Donald Trump`s supporters do not believe that President [Barack] Obama is Muslim or that he was not born in the United States.Those Trump supporters are not white supremacists. But if Trump did not have the support of Obama haters who believe that the President is a Muslim, who believe that he was not born in the United States, Donald Trump would lose two-thirds of his support.”

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Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“Most shows, buying shows, have a standard fee for the first shot of the writer and if you have a very militant agent, I suppose he might jack it up four percent or something. But in essence, you sell for what is the going rate.”

Ifs Firsts Shows Might Four Standards Percent Shots Essence Sells Rate Agents Buying Fees Militant

Author:Rod Serling

“If you look at the population of the world you have roughly 15% that will always be resisting advertising. Fifteen percent of something which has not yet been reached.”

Ifs World Looks Percent Population Advertising Fifteen Resisting

Author:Maurice Levy

“I always say that if I end up in a relationship where I feel like seventy-five percent of what I was looking for is there, then I've already won, then we're all winners in that relationship.”

Ifs Feels Ends Five Percent Winner Seventies Already Won

Author:Sara Quin

“Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though they didn't use the drug at higher rates and even though their numbers in the general population are so low. How could that be? The thing is, you place all your resources in communities of color. And if you do that, you're going to arrest black people.”

People Ifs Use Black Community Numbers Policy Color Higher Drug Lows Percent Resources Rate Population Cracks Black People Ninety Arrested Cocaine

Author:Carl Hart

“Who knows if John McCain could have won that presidential campaign [2008] in any circumstances when George W. Bush the outgoing Republican president had a 22 percent approval rating.”

Ifs Knows President Circumstances Republican Percent Campaigns Presidential Approval Rating Mccain Outgoing Presidential Campaign Approval Rating

Author:Rachel Maddow

“I think win the election big, if she can win it, I`d like to see Hillary Clinton 54, 55 percent because I want her to rule the country.”

Ifs Thinking Want Country Bigs Winning Percent Election Clinton

Author:Ryan Grim

“For someone to promise a percentage type cure for this issue, for instance I had someone who said they had experienced a 90 percent permanent - in all caps PERMANENT - reduction of their same-sex attraction. How can we quantify that? How can you even know that that's what you have experienced? And what if at some point you fall to 85 percent or 70 percent? That, I think, sets people up for unrealistic expectations and is something that I'm not willing to offer when we're sharing these types of messages or presenting what was presented to me.”

“When I said on national television I still struggle, a reparative therapist called me and said if you'll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent. And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they're struggling.”

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Author:Alan Chambers

“I think, again, if someone wants to know what I believe then look at my life. I am pursuing Christ wholeheartedly 100 percent. I don't need a theologian or a set of man-made beliefs to guide me in my daily life. I'm grateful for people's opinions but I choose to surrender and to serve Christ and Christ alone and in that my life has changed.”

“I am 100 percent confident. This is a security review that was requested. It is being carried out. It will be resolved. But I have to add if there's going to be a security review about me, there's going to have to be security reviews about a lot of other people, including Republican office holders, because we've got this absurd situation of retroactive classifications.”

People Ifs Situation Security Republican Office Percent Add Including Absurd Reviews Classification

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Researchers have been asking a basic question of young people. Should men be allowed to beat their wives? How you answer that question may depend on where you live. U.N. researchers put that question to adolescent girls in India and Pakistan and 53 percent - a majority of girls - said yes, wife beating is justifiable even if it's for refusing sex.”

People Ifs Men Should May Has Beens Said Young Girl Sex Answers Wife Depends Beats Percent India Asking Majority Pakistan Researchers Where You Live India And Pakistan Wife Beating

Author:Steve Inskeep

“I don't care how much you may think they're funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party doesn't - can't stand, we are going to lose.”

Ifs Thinking May Care Sound Loses Interesting Party Percent Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Marco Rubio

“If you go to a diner in the middle of America, people are having these conversations, but our politicians are too scared to bring it up because they're worried about offending the 0.002 percent of the country that may somehow be subject to what the conversation may be. And it's ridiculous.”

People Ifs May Country America Middle Subjects Politician Conversation Percent Scared Ridiculous Worried Offending Diners

Author:Donald Trump, Jr.

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