85th Percentile Quotes & Sayings

The slightest human contact was immediate joy. — Mitch Albom

This is where I break one last taboo: I'm incredibly glad I'm not a granny. — Kiki Dee

Few people would dream of hiring a contractor to build them a house and expect it to be built to a safe standard only 85 percent of the time; similarly, few people would want to eat out in a restaurant where only 85 percent of the meals were safe to eat. Why then do we accept such sloppiness in road safety, where a situation in which 85 percent of drivers going the speed limit is deemed to be good enough? — Neil Arason

The Mahabharata was not composed with the aim of describing a battle. The description of the battle serves only as a pretext. — Mahatma Gandhi

What a name! Was it love or praise?
Speech half-asleep or song half-awake?
I must learn Spanish, one of these days,
Only for that slow sweet name's sake. — Robert Browning

Don't be a "HEARER", be a "DOER. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

If you re not speaking your own truth, you will never be able to be all you are meant to be. You cannot be pretending to be somebody else. — Oprah Winfrey

I'm an actor, I do movies, and I need to find somebody who enjoys that kind of stuff. It's not like, "Oh, I have my work time, and we go on a date, and it better be darn fun and exciting!" I think it should all coalesce a bit more. — James Franco

It's fun to play around ... it's human nature to try to select the right horse ... But for the average person, I'm more of an indexer ... The predictability is so high ... For 10, 15, 20 years you'll be in the 85th percentile of performance. Why would you screw it up? — Charles R. Schwab

Be bold. Shine bright. — Sook-Yin Lee