“A lot of people don't realize that when you're trying to lose weight, or just trying to stay fit, 85 percent of it is what you eat, and 15 percent of it is how you work out.” PeopleTryingRealizingLosesFitPercentWeightWork OutLose Weight Author:Ciara
“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
“What a lot of people dont realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.” PeopleRealizingOpinionPercentProtectionGangEightyAttacking Author:Michael Caine
“Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.” PeopleIfsEnoughThreeVoiceRealizingLinesLaughingJokesPercentNinePoundsSay AnythingThree TimesNinetyMaking People LaughDeliveryCockyNinety Nine Author:Buddy Hackett
“There are days when I think the National Endowment for the Arts should issue a quota system for the production of plays by women - especially when you realize women buy 70 percent of all theater tickets.” ThinkingShouldArtPlayRealizingIssuesPercentTheaterProductionsTicketsEndowmentQuota Author:Marsha Norman
“I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.” ThinkingWorldPainSufferingRealizingAnxietyPercentPrivilegeElitesPain And Suffering Author:Nouriel Roubini
“Don't we realize we're a business, we single girls are? Every building that goes up in Manhattan has more than fifty percent efficiency apartments . . . for the one million girls who have very little use for them.” LittlesUseGirlRealizingMillionsBuildingPercentFiftyApartmentEfficiencyManhattanSingle Girl Book:Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York Source: Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
“Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?” IfsYearsStatesRealizingResultsNumbersMillionsEconomyCollegeDegreesPercentAdultsIncreaseAddBillionsIncomeArkansasCollege Degree Author:Mike Huckabee
“A girl can talk about my nose, my teeth or my accent - anything that gets a conversation going is fine with me. It is weird, though, the way women respond to my body. Maybe 50 percent respond positively right away, while another 25 or 30 percent need a while to adjust to my size and to realize that ordinarily my muscles are soft, just like anyone's, only bigger.” WayNeedsBodyGirlRealizingFineConversationPercentBiggerSizeTeethNosesMusclesAccentsPositively Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Ninety percent of the people don't realize that there is anything below the head. They think that the head is carried around by something very mysterious, and they're not aware that it's the body, something they should be in tune with.” PeopleThinkingShouldBodyRealizingPercentMysteriousTunesNinety Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Sometimes when I teach a student something that I think is really simple, I realize I'm teaching them something they can do 90 percent of really easily and the last 10 percent is going to take them 10 years.” ThinkingYearsSometimesLastsCan DoRealizingSimpleTeachTeachingStudentsPercent Author:Bruce Molsky
“You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.” PeopleWayUseOrderRealizingOpinionPercentWho You AreGreat ThingsObliviousMeasure Of Success Author:Damien Hirst
“It's really important, obviously, for people to realize that it is a very small percentage, only 1 percent of our total economy, of our total budget, and I think that's important for people to know. But I also know that Americans are very generous and that many, many Americans are proud that their taxpayer dollar has saved lives in Africa through the president's malaria initiative or through PEPFAR, the emergency relief plan for AIDS.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantPresidentRealizingEconomyPlansProudPercentDollarsAidsSavedBudgetsGenerousReliefInitiativeEmergenciesPercentagesTaxpayersMalaria Author:Laura Bush
“There are companies which are prepared to change the way they work. They realize that nothing can be based on what used to be, that there is a better way. But, 99 percent of companies are not ready, [they are] caught in an industrial Jurassic Park.” WayUsedRealizingCompanyReadyPercentPreparedCaughtUsed To BeParksBetter WaysNot ReadyJurassic Park Author:Ricardo Semler
“I love a hard-hit ball, a diving-play situation where you realize afterward there was no thinking involved. It was 100 percent reaction.” ThinkingHardPlayRealizingSituationInvolvedPercentBallsReactionsDiving Author:Morgan Ensberg
“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.” IfsKindArtAbleSexRealizingAbilityRolesPlansAchieveMovementIdentityThousandPercentCommitmentBlameDivorceMotherhoodProfessionFemininePermitForbiddenLifelongObsoleteMystiqueFeminine Mystique Author:Betty Friedan
“My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.” RealizingHappenedComputerMajorsPercentEconomicsComputer ScienceUndergraduate Author:Melinda Gates
“In the United States, there's definitely some controversy about birth control in general, and I think we needed to split the debate and have people realize that we actually agree as a country about contraceptives. Over 93 percent of American women say they use contraceptives, and they feel very good about it.” PeopleThinkingFeelsCountryStatesUseRealizingUnitedUnited StatesBirthNeededPercentAgreeVery GoodDebateSplitsControversyBirth ControlAmerican WomanContraceptives Author:Melinda Gates
“More than 70 percent of Colombians want peace. The rest are afraid of the price to be paid. But even they will realize that their worst fears will not come true. I'm quite optimistic that Colombians do back an agreement with the FARC.” WantRealizingWorstPercentPaidOptimisticAgreementWorst Fear Author:Juan Manuel Santos
“And sometimes people don't realize that 90 percent of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural America.” PeopleSometimesAmericaRealizingPovertyPercentPersistentCountyRural America Author:Tom Vilsack
“When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.” KindWholeRealizingAnimalPlansFieldsPercentPlantTinyOrganismsExploringUnexploredMicroorganismsInvertebrates Author:E. O. Wilson
“There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that’s one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards.” PeopleThinkingYearsLooksPersonsRealRealizingChanceRoomsFiveFourFiguresHealthyBeatsPercentCancerMathKicksFive YearsIrrationalCompetitivenessHealthy Person Book:Looking for Alaska Source: Looking for Alaska
“It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.” WorldDifferentMatterReasonRealizingCommonRaceFocusConflictPercentNo Matter WhatComplicatedGenderBackgroundsInabilityContentious Book:Every Day Source: Every Day