“With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.” LostLeadershipPercentCongressApprovalNormRatingLost FaithApproval RatingGridlock Author:Ron Fournier
“According to Gallup, Obama has already lost support among Jewish voters, down from 78 percent to 68 percent. If Romney shows that he is genuinely committed to Israel and that Obama is not, he'll make further inroads.” IfsShowsLostSupportPercentCommittedIsraelVotersRomney Author:David Limbaugh
“Rewriting is the essence of writing well: it's where the game is won or lost. The idea is hard to accept. We all have emotional equity in our first draft; we can't believe that it wasn't born perfect. But the odds are close to 100 percent that it wasn't.” WritingFirstsBelieveWellsIdeasHardGamesLostBornPerfectAcceptingEmotionalPercentEssenceOddsEquityRewritingWriting Well Author:William Zinsser
“If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.” IfsWayMatterRunningSuccessLostHoursFivePercentMake SenseSecondsNinetyMarathonOutstanding Author:Ralph Marston
“I'd say it's that most people think that very wealthy people take huge risks and that's why they have huge rewards. But the very best on earth are completely obsessed with not losing money. That sounds overly simplistic, but they know that if you lost 50 percent, it takes 100 percent to get even. Most people don't make that math in their head, so it takes years and years. They are obsessed with not losing money.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsYearsEarthLostSoundRiskHugeLosingPercentRewardsMathObsessedWealthyLosing Money Author:Tony Robbins
“My favorite thing is being able to travel around the world and perform for my fans. I think I've lost 80 percent of my hearing. I definitely have very loud fans.” ThinkingWorldAbleLostFansPercentMy FavoriteHearingAround The WorldLoudFavorites Things Author:Justin Bieber
“Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that have ever lived have died without progeny, but not a single one of your ancestors falls into that group! ... Not a single one of your ancestors, all the way back to the bacteria, succumbed to predation before reproducing, or lost out in the competition for a mate.” WayFallLostAliveGroupsAtheismLuckyCreaturesPercentDiedCompetitionPositive AtheismMatesAncestorBacteriaLucky YouProgenyReproducing Author:Daniel Dennett
“We lost one (Finals), we won two and we lost another one. (We'll) take 50 percent in four years in championships any day. Obviously, we want to win all of them, but that's just the nature of the game. Not proud of the way we played (in this series).” WayWantYearsTwoGamesWinningLostFourProudPercentSeriesFour YearsChampionshipNba ChampionshipsLost OnesNba Finals Author:LeBron James
“I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.” IfsMenMeanLostWealthHalfWatchesCouplePercentDollarsBillionsBudgetsModestExpenditures Author:Ted Turner
“Bargains are the holy grail of the true stockpicker. The fact that 10 to 30 percent of our net worth is lost in a market sell-off is of little consequence. We see the latest correction not as a disaster but as an opportunity to acquire more shares at low prices. This is how great fortunes are made over time.” LittlesMadeFactsOpportunityLostShareHolyLowsPercentConsequenceSellsFortuneDisasterAcquireBargainsCorrectionsHoly GrailNet Worth Book:Beating the Street Source: Beating the Street
“The reapportionment of 2002 designed congressional districts that favored incumbents of both parties, leaving virtually no room for challengers to be elected. Of 435 members of the House of Representatives, only four incumbents lost to nonincumbents of the other party. In all, 96 percent of incumbents were re-elected. (It was only 90 percent in 1992 and 1982 after the previous reapportionments.)” HouseLostRoomsPartyFourMembersPercentLeavingRepresentativesIncumbentsHouse Of Representatives Author:Dick Morris
“In natural pregnancy, more than half of fertilized eggs fail to implant or are otherwise lost. Should we regard that as an instance of infant mortality? And if so, why are we not mounting ambitious public health campaigns to try to save and rescue all of the fertilized eggs that are lost in natural pregnancy? We would need a public health campaign of massive proportions if there really were over a fifty percent rate of infant mortality.” IfsNeedsShouldTryingLostNaturalHalfFailingPercentRegardRateCampaignsInstanceProportionFiftyEggsMassiveMortalityPregnancyAmbitiousRescueInfantPublic HealthImplantsInfant Mortality Author:Michael Sandel
“I like Beyoncé because of her tenacity and strength and for giving 1000 percent to her performances, which is a lost art these days. She's cut from the cloth of some of us that really like to perform are cut from. I'm a big Beyoncé fan.” GivingArtBigsLostCuttingFansPercentPerformancesThese DaysTenacityLost Art Author:MC Hammer
“If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air.” IfsThinkingLooksCharacterLostAirMountainPercentClimbs Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I don't want to give a lecture to this body that's out there. You know, I mean, having had the heart attack, I want to get it back functioning. And as a practical matter, I mean if you were Bear Stearns, and you were a shareholder, you know, you lost 90 to 95 percent of your money. A good many lost their jobs. They lost very cushy lives, many of them.” IfsKnowsWantGivingHeartMeanMatterBodyJobsLostBearsPercentPracticalsGood ManLecturesShareholdersHeart Attack Author:Warren Buffett
“Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. And yet with more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.” WantStillsIdeasRunningAmericaDiesLostCitiesRevolutionCreaturesPercentAreasOur SocietyMulticulturalismComing BackIndustrial RevolutionMetropolitanRural America Author:David Simon
“Of course in this age of colorblindness, a time when we have supposedly moved "beyond race," we as a nation would feel very uncomfortable if only black people were sent to jail for drug offenses. We seem comfortable with 90 percent of the people arrested and convicted of drug offenses in some states being African American, but if the figure was 100 percent, the veil of colorblindness would be lost.” PeopleIfsFeelsStatesSeemsWould BeAgeCoursesLostNationsBlackRaceFiguresDrugComfortablePercentMovedAfrican AmericanUncomfortableJailBlack PeopleOffenseVeilsArrested Author:Michelle Alexander
“Over the period from 1988 to 2005, the income share of the top five percent has grown by about 3.5 percent of global household income, and the shares of all the other groups have diminished. The greatest relative reduction was in the bottom quarter, which lost about one third of its share of global household income, declining from 1.155 to 0.775 percent, and now is even more marginalized.” LostFiveGroupsSharePeriodsPercentThirdsBottomIncomeRelativeQuartersHouseholdReductionMarginalized Author:Thomas Pogge
“In the last recession, 99 percent of us have lost wealth, but did you know that the top 1 percent increased their wealth five times? It tells you they create recessions so they get wealthier.” KnowsLastsLostWealthFivePercentRecessionsDid You Know Author:Jesse Ventura
“In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.” YearsStatesTodayPastLostUnitedMillionsUnited StatesSourcePercentAgingNineIncomePrimariesFarmsFarmersElsewhereFarmingRanchersPrimary SourceFamily FarmsFarmers And Ranchers Author:Tom Vilsack
“Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.” GamesLostLossPercentBaseballFilledErrorsChampionHopsSeventies Author:Michael Chabon
“We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.” LittlesArtHomeLostPercentMethodMadDuesNineIncomeNinetyRainyRainy DayNinety NineProverbialLost Art Author:George Washington Carver