“I was struggling at Rookie Camp to be quite honest with you. Basically, it was a week of being locked down like in jail for me. I would say about 50 percent of it was useful. The most challenging part of it was off the court. I mean, man we were just sitting there at times. We had meetings from about 10 a.m. in the morning to about 10 at night and you can't get a workout in at all.” MenMeanNightSportsChallengesMorningStruggleWeekHonestPercentSittingCourtMeetingsJailCampsLockedWorkoutRookiesMean Man Author:Andrew Bogut
“Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in fact, under urban conditions, you don't need. These high speeds generate enormous safety requirements and so on and so forth. Now you can incrementally tweak the automobile. You can make the power train more efficient and you can enhance safety and all of these sorts of things that are very worthwhile.” NeedsFactsConditionsPercentSittingSafetyTrainSpeedEnormousWorthwhileEfficientUrbanRequirementsDoing NothingAutomobileSitting AroundGasolineHigh SpeedTweak Author:William J. Mitchell
“Leveling off at 42,000 feet, I had thirty percent of my fuel, so I turned on rocket chamber three and immediately reached .96 Mach. I noticed that the faster I got, the smoother the ride. Suddenly the Mach needle began to fluctuate. It went up to .965 Mach - then tipped right off the scale ... We were flying supersonic. And it was a smooth as a baby's bottom; Grandma could be sitting up there sipping lemonade.” ThreeFeetBabyPercentSittingBottomFlyingScalesFlightFasterThirtyFuelAviationSmoothChamberRocketsNeedlesGrandmaLemonadeSippingSitting Up Book:Yeager: An Autobiography Source: Yeager: An Autobiography
“Our flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's enough to power the United States for hundreds and hundreds of years. You're taking that and you are converting it to plutonium - and then you're burning that.” YearsStatesEnoughUnitedUnited StatesNormalPercentSittingBreathsBurningFlamesConvertingKentuckyUraniumPlutonium Author:Bill Gates
“It's not going to be sitting there producing The Apprentice. I can assure you of that. It's something that [Donald Trump] owns. It's a title he owns, but I'm telling you he's going to be 100 percent focused in the White House.” I CanHouseWhiteTrumpPercentSittingFocusedTitlesWhite HouseApprentice Author:Reince Priebus
“The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.” PeopleIfsLooksSaidNextWinningPresidentGroupsWeekTeamBuildingCollegeTrumpPercentSittingVoteElectionDisasterBurningBridgesElectoral CollegeBuilding BridgesBurning Bridges Author:Jason Chaffetz