One Percent Inspiration Quotes

#1. Someone might have a germ of talent, but 90 percent of it is discipline and how you practice it, what you do with it ... Instinct won't carry you through the entire journey. It's what you do in the moments between inspiration.

Cate Blanchett

#2. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.

Susan Cain

#3. Photography's 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent moving furniture.

Gregory Heisler

#4. Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.

Thomas A. Edison

#5. There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day - bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#6. Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

#7. Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

#8. I think that 60 percent of inspiration is organization.

Isaac Mizrahi

#9. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

#10. People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible

Will Rogers

#11. I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left

Alden W. Clausen

#12. His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Thomas A. Edison

#13. Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.

Susan Cain

#14. Singapore gives 10 percent 'white space' time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas.

Andy Hargreaves

#15. African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.

Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

#16. People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine.

Caprice Crane

#17. If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.

Ray Kurzweil

#18. If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent.

Hans Rosling