In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
– Peter McWilliams
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- Life is not a struggle. It’s a wiggle. – Peter McWilliams
- Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on? – Peter McWilliams
- Six percent unemployment only looks good from the vantage point of the other 94 percent. – Peter Passell
- To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all. – Peter McWilliams
- We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work. – Jesse Jackson
- The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones. – Peter McWilliams
- You have to pretend you’re 100 percent sure. You have to take action you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure. – Andrew Grove
- The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it’s gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work. – Jim Talent
- You hate it or love it; Life goes ON in its flow despite your best efforts to change it. – Anonymous
- I love to direct my daughter, and act with her, and we both want to work with Jane again. – Peter Fonda