Top 72 Quotes About Perspiration
#1. Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.
Gabrielle Tozer
#2. Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
Jim Rohn
#3. Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
Evan Esar
#4. Panting, my body dotted with perspiration, I scanned my surroundings. I saw walls of ivory and gold, painted in swirling patterns. An antique dresser. A furry white rug on the floor. A mahogany nightstand, with a Tiffany lamp perched next to a photo of my boyfriend, Cole.
Gena Showalter
#5. His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison
#6. In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
Bil Keane
#7. Audrey: I was wet.
Michael: Sweat.
Audrey: I don't sweat.
Michael: Well, ladylike perspiration, then.
L.J.Smith
#8. There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben
#9. You better learn to regulate your perspiration. This is not collision theft. To flush is a sign that you're hard at work. Nobody works hard riding the tram - not even the driver.
Martyn V. Halm
#10. We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him
but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration
we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey.
Albert E Cliffe
#11. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
#12. You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day in order to stay regular, lose weight, and detoxify. Our bodies are mostly made of water, and yet we lose two to three quarts of it every day through perspiration and other bodily functions.
Suzanne Somers
#13. Everyone is shy - it is the inborn modesty that makes us able to live in harmony with other creatures and our fellows. Achievement comes not by denying shyness but, occasionally, by setting it aside and letting pride and perspiration come first.
Kirkpatrick Sale
#14. Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple
Gene Wilder
#15. Genius is supposed to be 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
On the other hand, catering is 99% perspiration and 1% improvisation.
Elizabeth White
#16. Success flows from perspiration, and inspiration from diligence and effort.
Amos Oz
#17. Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health.
Orison Swett Marden
#18. Genius is not born. You make yourself a genius by imagination and perspiration.
Debasish Mridha
#19. With dedication towards a destination and some perspiration one gets their heartfelt realization.
Mark Victor Hansen
#20. Writing is 90% procrastination, 8% perspiration, and 6%biscuit
None of it is math.
Almney King
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. The path to success involves two parts. Part One is all about imagination and dreaming up a big idea. Part Two is all about having the diligence, the determination, and the tenacity needed to turn those dreams into reality. First comes the inspiration, then comes the perspiration.
Clay Clark
#25. THE BARN was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell - as though nothing bad could happen ever again in the world.
E.B. White
#26. Real grief is real. It makes you feel awful but it does something to you. I mean, it works it out like perspiration.
Agatha Christie
#27. I was panting by the time we reached the back of the casino. I felt perspiration run down my back and my sandals pinch my feet. They were adorable, but they were not made for chasing bad guys. Nevertheless, I kept going,
Gemma Halliday
#28. There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
Henry Ward Beecher
#29. A line of perspiration slipped down my spine like a waterslide at an unamusement park.
Michelle Rowen
#30. Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes.
Carole King
#31. I was sweating like Christy Moore at a Feis Ceol, so badly, in fact, I looked like I was sporting a finger moustache as I attempted to rescue suicidal perspiration drops from my upper lip. Classy.
Annmarie O'Connor
#33. Upright, she's slapped with the aroma of musk and sweat. It's the good hunky, 'shirtless man building a dollhouse for his daughter' kind of perspiration, not the 'he just mowed the lawn' kind of stench.
Sandy Ward Bell
#34. 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
#35. Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.
Johnny Miller
#36. My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#37. America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp prick. Above all it fears the limp prick.
Walter Abish
#38. Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.
Thomas A. Edison
#40. Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame.
Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs, vibrating like a guiter string as perspiration covered her entire body, she felt like disappearing into the thin air, maybe to another mind creating world.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#41. That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
Yanni
#42. Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.
Blaine Hogan
#43. Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing
Thomas A. Edison
#44. Raw talent only gets you so far in this old world and the rest is a whole lot of practice, persistence, and perspiration.
Victoria Forester
#45. Accountants come in pairs these days. A middle-aged man in a dark suit and a sheen of perspiration, plus his younger accomplice, a woman who looks like her hobbies are arranging things in rows and making right angles.
Harry Bingham
#46. Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.
George Foreman
#47. Shino looked at me straight in the eye and smiled, her face brimming with a kind of inner strength. That strength seemed to gather the beads of perspiration that glistened on her brow, then sprang from her face and leapt across to my heart with a rhythm like ripples on water.
Tetsuo Miura
#48. There's a poster with Thomas Edison's quote: GENIUS IS 1 PERCENT INSPIRATION AND 99 PERCENT PERSPIRATION.
Lauren Oliver
#49. I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben
#50. Inspiration is like perspiration. It tends to strike at the most inopportune of times.
Max Hawthorne
#51. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.
Susan Cain
#52. Jamie liked perspiration, a little bit of dirt, and complications.
E.L. Konigsburg
#53. To create great work, here's how you must spend your time:
1% Inspiration
9% Perspiration
90% Justification
George Lois
#54. Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
Vladislav Rastorotsky
#55. If your creation is taking 99% perspiration, it stinks and you need more inspiration.
Kelly Bryson
#56. I guess I should thank you for totally making my morning. It's not every day a stranger notices my perspiration level.
- Dr. Jeri Asher (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)
Richard Finney
#57. Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
Roald Dahl
#58. Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
Abraham Lincoln
#60. God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls.
David Brainerd
#61. Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.
Scott Belsky
#62. Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.
Bill Bright
#64. Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon Hill
#65. I didn't want to wear the bra I'd discarded last night;it was filthy and reeked of perspiration. Not that I was pleased my breasts could be kept under control by such a thin sheath of fabric, but it did have its advantages.
Christina Garner
#66. Gardening requires lots of water ... most of it in the form of perspiration.
Louise Erickson
#67. Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
#68. It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is ... songs comes through you.
Greg Lake
#69. A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest.
Neal Stephenson
#70. Ladies glisten, men perspire, horses sweat.
-Early Nun Quote, The Old Ursuline Convent (1727)
New Orleans, LA
Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
#71. I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.
Don Roff
#72. You have to dig a well before you can draw water from it.
Richie Norton
