“I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know?” ThinkingKnowsRealMomentsProcessDecisionPercentUnderstoodArtisticSeatsPantsIntuitiveArtistic Process Author:George Saunders
“Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.” MomentsHandsCostPercentRoundsEmsGamblingDefiningBettingDefining Moments Book:Hold'em Excellence: From Beginner to Winner Source: Hold'em Excellence: From Beginner to Winner
“At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you look at maps of rising sea levels and spreading mosquitoes, you realize that we've probably never figured out a way to hate our neighbors around the world much more effectively.” WorldWayLooksCountryMomentsHateRealizingLevelsSeaProducePercentNeighborAround The WorldRisingGlobal WarmingMapsQuartersCarbonMosquitoesCarbon Dioxide Author:Bill McKibben
“Photography is much more about elimination than inclusion. The images we make with a lens typically eliminate ninety percent of our field of view and everything that is out of our field of view. The shutter slices time, eliminating all moments before and after it opens and closes. Three dimensions are reduced to two. And in some cases color is removed. How can we call these kinds of artifacts unaltered?” KindTwoMomentsThreeViewsCasesFieldsColorPhotographyPercentDimensionsInclusionLensesNinetyEliminationEliminatingArtifactsShuttersBefore And AfterThree Dimensions Author:John Paul Caponigro
“I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with tons of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks. I have spent a lifetime coming to terms with this idea and I would say I am about 15 to 20 percent there.Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.” PeopleIfsLooksMadeIdeasMomentsWould BeGirlTermDecisionAcceptingPersonalityEasierLuckyLetting GoPercentDecidedLifetimeCurrency Author:Amy Poehler
“But from the moment George Bush decided to overthrow Saddam, the people who were going to benefit here were the Shia, who are 60 percent of the population. So if you were ever going to have an election, then the Shia would take over.” PeopleIfsMomentsBenefitsPercentDecidedElectionPopulationSaddamShia Author:Patrick Cockburn
“At the moment, for example, maybe ten percent of money in the world is related to goods and services. Ninety percent of money is just moving around the world, chasing money. So, money has become the ruler. And we have become the servant.” WorldMomentsMovingExampleTenPercentAround The WorldServantRelatedGoodsRulersChasingNinetyGoods And ServicesChasing Money Author:Satish Kumar
“I think it's a fun thing, and perhaps maybe very so slightly as an American, it's a slightly different thing that they didn't do as much of when the show was 100 percent written by Brits just because I'm not sure they were quite as familiar with some of these little moments in our government system.” ThinkingLittlesDifferentMomentsShowsGovernmentFunWrittenPercentFamiliarNot SureDifferent ThingsFun ThingsBritsLittle Moments Author:David Mandel
“It's just a moment that doesn't feel 100-percent truthful, a kind of a square peg/round hole situation. Which is why the preproduction on a movie is so important, because you can't just push those through.” FeelsKindImportantMomentsSituationPercentRoundsHolesSquaresTruthfulPegSquare Pegs Author:Ryan Reynolds
“Of course, the UK is a significant economy that makes up a quarter of American exports to the EU, more than 50 percent of our exports in certain sectors and over 25 percent of the government procurement opportunities we have in Europe. Brexit reduces the size of the TTIP deal for the United States, and there will need to be an adjustment of expectations accordingly, but Brexit underscores the value of reaching an agreement at this critical moment in the evolution of Europe.” NeedsStatesMomentsGovernmentCertainValuesCoursesOpportunityUnitedDealsUnited StatesEconomyEvolutionExpectationsPercentEuropeSizeCriticalSignificantReachingAgreementQuartersAdjustmentCritical MomentsProcurement Author:Michael Froman
“I think that when somebody tells you something of value, a lot of the time there's this thing that happens, and I don't know if you find it, where they go exactly for the word or the moment or the thing that you were hoping they wouldn't notice, or inside didn't feel 100 percent secure about. If they point it out, then that really sends you the message of, "Okay, I was trying to override my own instincts about it, and I guess I shouldn't."” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsTryingMomentsHappensValuesMy OwnMessagesPercentOkayInstinctSecure Author:Regina Spektor
“In 1996 or 1997, out of nowhere, Fox News comes on and it's on channel 360 on Direct TV, and out of 300 million Americans, on every single night, anywhere from 3 to 5 million watch it, we're talking about at no more than 2 percent of the American public is watching Fox at any given moment. Yet, ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, the institutional left, CNN, MSNBC, the record companies, Hollywood, all seem to be committed towards aligning their minds and their money and their other resources to try to shut up Fox News.” TryingMindMomentsSeemsNightLeftGivenCompanyTalkingWatchesMillionsRecordsNew YorkTvsNewsPercentResourcesDirectHollywoodCommittedShut UpFoxesNew York TimesRecord CompaniesCnnFox NewsNbc Author:Andrew Breitbart
“If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.” IfsLooksMomentsMightFacesLaughingSurvivalPercentHundredRateEnjoyedMeritStatisticsCracksMeaninglessFatalitySaffron Author:Jasper Fforde
“This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It shold be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent.” KnowsShouldLittlesMomentsDesireWaitingSpacePerfectPercentConscienceGuiltySettlingLastingClosetsConvenienceGuilty Conscience Book:The Secret Life of Prince Charming Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
“Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life.” ThinkingFeelsShouldHumansDifferentMomentsMightImaginationMemoriesHuman BeingsWorryFantasyOur LivesHappenedPercentEmptyDifficultyShameSticks Author:Joko Beck