New old saying: "90% of the work...."

[Bill Palmer]

and of course 90% of baseball is half mental

Bill Palmer

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> Today at [
> http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=126218&messages=230&page=1&desc=yes]:
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> "I spent 33 years as a sound engineer at the BBC. I know just how long it
> takes to do the simplest of things.
> "We had a saying.
> "90% of the work takes 90% of the time.
> "The other 10% takes the other 90% of the time."
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> JL
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> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> truth."
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