“Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.” WritingI CanHardBitsPercentOriginalsSeventies Author:Mike Rutherford
“Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.” MadeReadyPercentCreditStoresPlusSeventies Author:Sandra Lee
“Seventy-five percent of our energy around the earth is being poured into war efforts. Are we servants of death and destruction? This 75 percent of energy could be poured into life, into the service of life-and there will be laughter, and there will be greater health, and there will be more wealth, more food. There will be no poverty. There is no need for poverty to exist at all.” NeedsWarMotivationalEarthEnergyWealthEffortPovertyFiveGreaterLaughterPercentDestructionServantSeventies Author:Rajneesh
“In a real battle, atemi is seventy percent, technique is thirty percent.” RealBattlePercentTechniqueThirtySeventies Author:Morihei Ueshiba
“The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.” SubjectsPercentFiftySixtySeventiesTireEightyHaiku Author:Matsuo Basho
“I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.” ThinkingWorldMadeJobsWaterFivePlanetsOceanPercentDiscoveryCoveredFabulousSeventiesBest Job Author:Edith Widder
“Seventy percent of Earth's surface is water and over 99 percent is uninhabited, so you would expect nearly all impactors to hit either the ocean or desolate regions on Earth's surface. So why do movie meteors have such good aim?” EarthWaterOceanPercentAimSurfaceRegionsSeventiesExtinctionDesolateMeteors Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT, so it is always sensible to see the character of a person solely by his ACT or deeds than his words.” PersonsCharacterFactsFiveFourPercentDeedsSensibleSeventiesCharacter Of A Person Author:Anuj
“Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.” WritingFirstsPercentGoldSeventiesGarbage Author:Laurell K. Hamilton
“How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?” PeopleJobsPercentVoteSeventiesPollsParlor Author:Bill Hicks
“Seventy-six percent of the American people say we have a spiritual problem in our country. That's great, because now they understand the root of the problem is not that we haven't passed enough laws; rather, the root of the problem is in terms of our social value system.” PeopleCountryEnoughProblemSpiritualLawValuesSocialTermHavensSixPercentRootsOur CountrySeventiesValue SystemsSocial Values Author:Charles Colson
“If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.” IfsFailingCapablePercentBlockKeep GoingSeventies Author:Mike Lowell
“I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.” IfsFactsMovingGuyFoundWaitingPerfectBusinessEconomyFiveCrazyRegretPercentPersonal GrowthSeventiesNever RegretI Never Regret Author:Lee Iacocca
“Planet Hollywood has shrunk from seventy-five locations around the world to just over thirty-five over the past two years. No new Planet Hollywoods are opening, which in turn has caused a 100 percent decline in opportunities for Bruce Willis to play the harmonica.” WorldYearsTwoPlayPastTurnsOpportunityFivePlanetsPercentHollywoodOpeningAround The WorldThirtyTwo YearsDeclineLocationSeventiesOver The PastHarmonicas Author:Jon Stewart
“Seventy-five percent of all Americans believe that angels are real. Which is amazing when you consider that forty percent of all Americans think DNA evidence is unreliable.” ThinkingBelieveRealFivePercentEvidenceAngelFortySeventiesDnaUnreliableDna Evidence Author:Richard Jeni
“I always say that if I end up in a relationship where I feel like seventy-five percent of what I was looking for is there, then I've already won, then we're all winners in that relationship.” IfsFeelsEndsFivePercentWinnerSeventiesAlready Won Author:Sara Quin
“You can see signs of a roaring economy. You can sense economic growth. You know it's happening. You're part of it. It is affecting you. Seventy-five percent of Americans think the government is corrupt.” ThinkingKnowsGovernmentGrowthEconomyFiveEconomicHappeningsPercentSeventiesEconomic GrowthRoaring Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Probably not a surprise that, among the people of Mexico, just 4 percent say that they have a positive opinion of [Donald] Trump. Seventy-five percent say they have a negative opinion.” PeopleOpinionFiveTrumpPercentNegativeSurpriseMexicoSeventies Author:Steve Kornacki
“Seventy-five percent of voters now [in September 2016], according to the latest poll, want third-party candidates included in the debate. We have the highest disapproval and distrust rates ever in our history for these two presidential candidates, which the system is doing everything it can to force down our throats.” WantTwoForcePartyFiveHighestPercentThirdsRateDebatePresidentialCandidatesVotersThroatSeptemberSeventiesDistrustPollsPresidential CandidateDisapprovalThird Parties Author:Jill Stein
“Seventy-eight percent of millennials are worried about not having enough good paying job opportunity to pay off their student loans. Seventy-four percent can't pay the health care if they get sick. Seventy-nine percent don't have enough money to live when they retire. So, already, we're having a whole generation that's coming on, not only here but also in Europe, that isn't able to get good-paying jobs.” IfsEnoughWholeCareAbleJobsOpportunityPayFourGenerationsStudentsPercentEuropeSickEightNineHealth CareWorriedRetiringSeventiesLoanMillennialsStudent LoanJob Opportunities Author:Michael Hudson
“Full Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital: that comes in sixty to seventy percent without even further explanation. And if you ever explained it, given all the trouble people are having qualifying and not qualifying for all these healthcare so-called insurance plans, it would go up even higher.” PeopleIfsChoicesGivenPlansTroubleHigherPercentDoctorsExplanationHospitalsHealthcareSixtySeventiesMedicareFree ChoiceQualifying Author:Ralph Nader
“We just watched this budget debacle right? Seventy-three percent of Americans want to tax the rich. Why can't the politicians respond to that? Because they are the rich. And they are beholden to the rich. It's a captured system.” WantThreeRichPoliticianTaxesPercentBudgetsSeventiesCapturedDebacles Author:Bill Ayers
“For the workers and their families, being able to bring home a living wage helps their families and, by extension, helps our economy. Seventy percent of our economy is consumer-based. We know that when lower- and middle-class families have money and disposable income, they spend it. That puts money back into the economy. It's a win-win for everybody: Not just for the individual, not just production at a specific company (like Nissan), but for the greater good.” KnowsHelpingHomeAbleWinningIndividualCompanyClassEconomyGreaterMiddlePercentWorkersProductionsIncomeConsumersMiddle ClassExtensionsSeventiesDisposableGreater GoodWin WinLiving WageMiddle Class Family Author:Nina Turner
“Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.” CountryLevelsPercentIndiaPopulationDevelopingEngagedAgricultureAsiaPakistanSeventiesEightyDeveloping CountriesSubsistenceIndia Pakistan Author:Norman Borlaug
“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
“What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.” SaidEyePercentConcernedWinterHungryThirtyHis EyesSeventiesCrispsMischievousCloversFillers Author:Obert Skye