“I was ninety-nine point nine percent sure that I was dreaming.”
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
“Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.”
“Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.”
“You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.”
“Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.”