“What happens is that you discover you're carrying so much weight that 90 percent of what you thought yesterday you are thinking about today and will think about again tomorrow. Your mind doesn't change because you are carrying too large a load. So the mind is caught. It's seized by its own structures. It can't consider different ways of thinking or doing or being or relating. It's all you can do with your psychic energy to keep pulling yourself along with this huge bag that you are dragging behind you.” ThinkingWayMindDifferentHappensTodayEnergyCan DoBehindsHugeTomorrowPercentWeightStructureCaughtYesterdayDifferent WaysBagsOver YouLoadPullingPsychicsWay Of ThinkingBehind You Author:Jean Houston
“I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that was supposed to pay my tuition, and I used it to make a film. For the longest time, I never actually graduated. And about 70 percent of the things I learned there I had to unlearn, but 30 percent was really valuable. It's like Mark Twain said, "Don't let school get in the way of your education."” WayFirstsSaidSchoolFilmUsedPayDegreesPercentMarkValuableGraduatesScholarshipFilm SchoolUnlearnTuitionNyu Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!” WorldWayFirstsMadeWantedActorsWaterViewsPercentHam Author:Mike Myers
“And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.” IfsWayYearsMadeImportantCareGoalTermLevelsProgressHugeCostPercentImportant ThingsHealth CareInflationDeficitReducingHealth Care Costs Author:Barack Obama
“I have wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox, which is a movie. And I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie. It's about two percent moviemaking and ninety-eight percent hustling. It's no way to spend a life.” WayTryingTwoEnergyGreaterToo MuchPercentEightExpensiveNinetyHustleNinety Eight Author:Orson Welles
“..this is just like life must be for about 99 percent of the people in the world. You're in this place. There's other people all around you, but they don't understand you and you don't understand them, but people do a lot of pointless babbling anyway. In order to stay alive, you have to spend all day every day doing stupid meaningless work. And the only way to get out of it is to quit, cut loose, take a flyer, and go off into the wicked world, where you will be swallowed up and never heard from again.” PeopleWorldWayOrderCuttingAliveHeardStupidPercentQuittingWickedMeaninglessPointlessStaying AliveBabblingFlyersWicked World Author:Neal Stephenson
“Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.” WayInspirationalHumansMeanRealSpiritLanguageHalfRightsViolenceConflictSolutionsPercentHundredPracticalsDialogueCompromiseWinnerLoserReconciliationDisagreementNon ViolenceHuman Language Author:Dalai Lama
“There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.” WayLooksReasonTodayUsedFeminismHairExercisePercentReason WhyFiftyFortyLos AngelesGraySixtyManhattanAmerican WomanHair Dye Author:Nora Ephron
“Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best or just expect the worst.” WayLifeLooksChoicesLeftWorstPercentHundredHoping For The Best Book:Lock and Key Source: Lock and Key
“Don't make fun of her," the Duke said. "She needs gentle encouragement. Carla, baby, we love you. You are such a good car. And we believe in you one hundred percent." ... "Don't listen to him, Carla. You're gonna do this." ... "I love you, Carla. You know that, don't you? I wake up every morning and the first thing I think is that I love Tobin's mom's car. I know that's weird, baby, but I do. I love you. And I know you can do this." ... "Carla," the Duke said, "it's time to tell you the truth. I'm in love with you. I want to be with you, Carla. I've never felt this way about a c-” ThinkingKnowsWayWantNeedsFirstsBelieveSaidFunFeltCan DoMorningLove YouCarBabyMomPercentHundredEncouragementWake UpGentleEvery MorningBelieve In YouDukesWant To Be With YouI Want To Be With You Author:John Green
“Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.” WayWholeWaterPercentHundredSkinsSurfaceTinyMudPondsIcebergTip Of The Iceberg Author:Siobhan Dowd
“Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 percent—as strong, as talented, as inteligent in every way—to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that you can put the key of his emancipation in a man's hands and he will throw it back at you with a curse.” MenWayHumansCountryHandsStrongKeysPercentCursePerpetualHuman HistoryHandfulEmancipationServitude Book:The White Tiger Source: The White Tiger