#tenth

I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be. ↗

— Wayne Rogers

#come #i #i think #likes #nine

What seems to be the problem, Al?' Mom had said. 'Everyone's calling me bossy and fat,' he'd said. 'Plus they say I'm sneaky.' 'Well, Al,' she'd said, 'you are bossy and you are fat. And I'm guessing you can be pretty sneaky. But you know what else you are? You have what is called moral courage. When you know something is right, you do it, no matter what the cost.' Mom could sometimes be full of it. Once, she'd said she could tell by the way he ran upstairs that he'd make a great mountain climber. Once, when he managed a B-minus in math, she'd said he should be an astronomer. ↗

— George Saunders

#tenth-of-december #courage

Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse. ↗

— George Saunders

#my-chivalric-fiasco #tenth-of-december #experience

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle. ↗

— Henry Addington

#hate #i #lack #liberality #nine

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#consistently #creature #day #earth #ever

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. ↗

— William Feather

#could #doing #followed #grandfathers #known

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. ↗

— Francis Marion Crawford

#expect #itself #nine-tenths

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#books #done #left #smashing #successes

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#nine-tenths #other #people #tenth #want

But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#arabia #days #exporter #exports #got