#tenth

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#going #great #great pride #halfway #i

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him. ↗

— Arthur E. Waite

#card #court #depends #end #falls

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#commandments #cut #final #final cut #first

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#common #differ #everyone #genes #know

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#change #conversation #knock #nine-tenths #once

We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that. ↗

— Asa Hutchinson

#carefully #checks #continue #i #i think

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor. ↗

— Barber Conable

#earn #income #less #only #own

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#clever #existing #nine-tenths #nonsense

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#books #certain #flashing #generals #irrational

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem. ↗

— John Lennon

#nine-tenths #possession #problem