“According to the latest poll, a record 73 percent of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. But the good news: Gas is so expensive that we'll never get there.” ThinkingCountryRecordsNewsPercentExpensiveGasGood NewsPollsWrong Direction Author:Jay Leno
“The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.” IfsTryingMayChildrenDoeStillsKidsMotherFatherWatchesAcceptanceTvsSixNewsPercentClockNinetyLiable Author:Bill Cosby
“In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice, we have become targets. Insurgent groups no longer use reporters to transmit news, but instead kidnap them to make news. They treat us as enemy combatants and spies. This is our everyday reality.” UseRealityJusticeEnemyCasesGroupsNewsPercentTreatsMurderEverydayJournalismTargetReportersSpyTransmitImpunityStaggeringInsurgent Author:Mariane Pearl
“When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.” CountryEconomyNewsPercentLaborEmployedGood NewsBoastWorkforceLabor Day Author:J. D. Hayworth
“I saw a door that said exit only. So I entered through it and went up to the guy working there and said "I have good news. You have severely underestimated that door over there. By like a hundred percent."” SaidHumorFunnyGuySawsDoorsNewsPercentHundredGood NewsExitUnderestimated Author:Demetri Martin
“The first 90 percent of a revolution is creating the product or service; the second 90 percent is evangelizing it. At the beginning of a revolution, you need evangelists, not sales, because leverage spreads news.” NeedsFirstsProductsRevolutionCreatingNewsPercentSpreadEvangelists Author:Guy Kawasaki
“The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy.” ThinkingMenWayBehindsHalfDemocracyTvsNewsPercentThanksTwinsTowersSaddamHusseinPollsCalamityHalf TruthTwin Towers Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Aggregating is only a part of what we do: HuffPost offers a combination of original blog posts (approximately 200 a day), original reporting, syndicated news (like from AP) that we pay for, and licensed content (via content-sharing partnerships). Original blog posts and pieces from our reporters account for more than 40 percent of all content viewed on HuffPost.” PayPiecesOffersNewsPercentAccountsOriginalsPostsCombinationPartnershipReportersBlogs Author:Arianna Huffington
“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
“When the United States invaded Iraq, a New York Times/CBS News survey estimated that 42 percent of the American public believed that Saddam Hussein was directly responsible for the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. And an ABC news poll said that 55 percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein directly supported al-Qaeda. None of this opinion is based on evidence (because there isn’t any).” WorldSaidStatesUnitedOpinionUnited StatesNew YorkNewsPercentEvidenceResponsibleTradeIraqAlsSeptemberSaddamHusseinPollsSeptember 11New York TimesSurveysAl QaedaPentagonWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterSeptember 11th Author:Arundhati Roy
“The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.” BehaviorNewsPercentFinanceGood NewsRocketsPersonal FinanceRocket Science Author:Dave Ramsey
“More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed or do i jusy want to be known as a socially active person? I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I dont have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, i only have to look at myself. I am not brow beating here, i am only saying that true charge , true living giving, God honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem i had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read “I am the problem” ThinkingWorldWantGivingLooksPersonsProblemActionWantedIndividualSocialJusticeMy OwnKnownWatchesNewsPercentSocial JusticeActiveEveningMotiveMy TimeOppressedBrowsHere I AmEfficacySocial Action Author:Donald Miller