“I dont think you should give away your name and face to something you dont believe 100-percent in.” ThinkingGivingShouldBelieveFacesNamesPercent Author:Claudia Schiffer
“LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.” PeopleWantLittlesDoeEndsNamesProgressInformationLike YouPercentTasksBoxesBarsChecksLinkedin Author:Jesse Schell
“Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or some president or slave owner's name. And, I almost wonder is this, like, is this part of a way of taking back the principle of naming your - I might be going too far into this - but naming your kids something of your choice?” WayFeelsMightKidsChoicesNamesPresidentWonderPrinciplesPercentSlavePopulationAfrican AmericanOwnersSlave Owners Author:Jordan Peele
“When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute, we wanted people to take it seriously so we gave it more of an industrial look. People personified their Roomba anyway. Over 80 percent of people name their robot. We did nothing to encourage people to do that but they do it anyway.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksWantedFacesNamesPercentBuiltCuteRobots Author:Colin Angle
“Ninety-nine percent of girls want to be models because they believe it will mean that they are the most beautiful women in the world. They think that they will wear expensive clothes, makes loads of money, travel a lot and have a rock star for a boyfriend. This never interested me. I didn't want anyone to scream out my name. I wanted to make art, to create an image with a photographer. And yes, I wanted to get out of Clinton, Mississippi - a small town that was so closed-minded you can't even imagine.” ThinkingWorldWantBelieveMeanArtWantedBeautifulGirlNamesStarsImagineRocksClothesModelsPercentTownsClintonPhotographerNineExpensiveScreamLoadSmall TownNinetyBeautiful WomenRock StarMississippiNinety NineClosed MindedMost Beautiful Woman In The WorldExpensive Clothes Author:Crystal Renn
“As I started reading about it, I saw that at the beginning of the 19th century, outside of New England - which was an unusually literate place - practically no one could read or write. And even in New England, the overall rate was only about 60 percent. That still means four out of 10 people couldn't put their name to a will.” PeopleWritingMeanStillsReadingNamesSawsFourCenturyPercentEnglandRate19th CenturyNew England Author:Robert Hass
“I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent.” WantHandsFacesNamesBehindsProductsProjectsPercentHundred Author:Kim Kardashian
“Since I began exploring the ocean in the 1950s, 90 percent of the big fish have been stripped away. Tuna, sharks, swordfish, cod, halibut, you name it, the numbers have just collapsed. Also, about half of the coral reefs are gone, globally, from where they were just a few decades ago.” Has BeensBigsNamesNumbersHalfGoneOceanPercentFishesDecadesExploringSharksReefsTunaBig FishCoral ReefsHalibut Author:Sylvia Earle
“If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.” IfsDoneGuyNamesSimplePercentChecksAttractiveReally CoolPrimal Author:Danica McKellar
“Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.” PeopleKnowsMeanStatesTodayNamesUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryPercentServingUniformsListeners Author:Oliver North
“The world does not consist of 100 percent Christians and 100 percent non-Christians. There are people (a great many of them) who are slowly ceasing to be Christians but who still call themselves by that name: some of them are clergymen. There are other people who are slowly becoming Christians though they do not yet call themselves so.” PeopleWorldDoeStillsChristianNamesBecomingPercentClergymen Author:C. S. Lewis
“This is ten percent luck, Twenty percent skill, Fifteen percent power of will, Five percent pleasure, Fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name” ReasonPainRememberNamesPleasureFiveTenSkillsPercentHundredTwentiesLuckFiftyFifteenWill Power Author:Mike Shinoda