I've found the 90-10 rule to be pretty true: 90 percent of what I come up with and write down is kinda 'eh,' and then somehow, someway, 10 percent of it happens to work out really great in my act.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.
Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
If you put out 150 percent, then you can always expect 100 percent back. That's what I was always told as a kid, and It's worked for me so far!
I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.
I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.
When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.
Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.