Percent Perspiration Quotes

#1. There's a poster with Thomas Edison's quote: GENIUS IS 1 PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT PERSPIRATION.

Lauren Oliver

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Thomas A. Edison

#5. Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Jim Rohn

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. The idea itself is the ten percent inspiration; the hammering it into a viable, successful, memorable story is the ninety percent perspiration that follows.

Chris Claremont

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

Susan Cain

#10. I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

David Oyelowo

#11. Violence destroyed families. Violence destroyed lives.

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He'd never been a violent man, but he'd seen it. It killed the spirit and left families fearful and hopeless.

Gail Gaymer Martin

#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. I'm not doing my work for constant success.

Rod Taylor

#14. But alas! Like many another consummation devoutly to be wished, the actual performance was a disappointing one.

Fred Reinfeld

#15. I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.

Gregory Maguire

#16. A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.

Flann O'Brien

#17. Curiosity has ... proven to be a great ingredient in resilience, a trait particularly valuable in an extended economic downturn. Resilient people aren't made of steel; they just provide themselves with more options, and those options come from a curious mind.

Chip Conley

#18. I've looked at so
much porn that
every woman I meet
looks vaguely
familiar

Phil Volatile

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

Thomas A. Edison

#20. That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

Yanni