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1 " If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print. "
― Lewis Buzbee , The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History
2 " ..The stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job. "
― Hugh MacLeod , Evil Plans: Having Fun on the Road to World Domination
3 " I was just thinking if the sex with you is one-tenth as fun as arguing with you. I'll be one happy bastard." " You'll never find out. You--------" He kissed me. ~ Jack Travis & Ella Varner "
4 " The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. Homo sapiens gangs up to 70 percent of its sense receptors solely for vision, to anticipate danger and recognize reward, but also—more so—for beauty. "
― Ellen Meloy , The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky
5 " If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out... Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier. "
― Randy Pausch , The Last Lecture
6 " If one were to include one-tenth of the remarkable people one knows, in one's fiction, no one would accept it. Real life remains one's private menagerie. "
― Sylvia Townsend Warner
7 " And the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of all collectors? This is news to me, you may say. It is not news at all. experts will bear me out when I say that it is the oldest thing in the world. Suffice it to quote the answer which Anatole France gave to a philistine who admired his library and then finished with the standard question, “And you have read all these books, Monsieur France?” “Not one-tenth of them. I don’t suppose you use your Sevres china every day? "
― Walter Benjamin
