Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes. — Carole King
Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both. — George Foreman
Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%. — Thomas A. Edison
Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world. — Scott Belsky
Perspiration Image Quotes
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Inspiration And Perspiration Quotes
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
Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration. — Johnny Miller
Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. — Stephen Leacock
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration! — Denise Austin
Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration — Thomas A. Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework. — Thomas A. Edison
Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams. — Ralph Lauren
Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. — Thomas A. Edison
Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. — Vladislav Rastorotsky
None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. — Thomas A. Edison
Percent Perspiration Quotes
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. — Thomas A. Edison
Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration. — Thomas A. Edison
That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true. — Yanni
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
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
Thomas Edison Quotes
A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison. — Thomas A. Edison
My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence. — Michael Saylor
Failure is a tool to get to the promise land. We all enjoy light today. Thomas Edison Failed a thousand times for us. — Folorunsho Alakija
Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit. — Napoleon Hill
I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did. — Steve Jobs
When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent. — George Carlin
He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions. — Charles Edison
If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles. — Mark Mccormack
To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates. — Mark Mccormack
Charlie Christians' contributions to the electric guitar are as big as Thomas Edisons' contributions to the world. — Barney Kessel
Sweat Day Quotes
I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat. — Michael Jordan
For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it. — Frank Gehry
Every drop of sweat and every breath we take in life, if not taken for the sake of Allah, will lead to regret and sorrow on the Day of Judgment — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it. — Andre Agassi
Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best. — Andrea Gibson
I used to say... 'Don't sweat the small stuff - not even the big stuff.' At the end of the day, none of it matters but your own joy, your own spiritual journey that you go on, God, your loved ones, your friends, your animals. These are the things you've got to cherish and love and embrace. — Christina Applegate
I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff. — Olivia Newton-John
After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind. — Becca Fitzpatrick
And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them. — Paul Ryan
Sweat Quotes
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. — Colin Powell
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. — Dan Gable
The more you sweat in battle, the less you bleed in war. — George S. Patton
The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I'm not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I'm talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat. — Gabrielle Roth
It's called the pump, people - you got to experience it; it's one of the better highs in life, you don't need to shoot up for it, you don't need to snort it. All you got to do is sweat for it. — Greg Plitt
Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship. — Julian of Norwich
The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. — Isak Dinesen
To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat
is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past.
The more you dance... the more you sweat, the more you pray. The more
you pray, the closer you are to ecstasy. — Gabrielle Roth
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking. — Mia Hamm
The sweaty players in the game of life always have more fun than the supercilious spectators. — William Feather
Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket. — Sayings
But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool. — Lil' Kim
Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation that you don't want to have. — Gay Hendricks
Triple 6 Mafia and Mystikal in Atlanta was one of my first shows. I remember how sweaty and smashed up everybody was, and it was so punk rock. — Yelawolf
You know it's love when you want to keep holding hands even after you're sweaty. — Rita Rudner
People think I'm into sports because I'm a man. But I'm not into sports. I like Gatorade, but that's about as far as it goes. By the way, you don't have to be sweaty and play basketball to enjoy Gatorade. You can just be a thirsty dude. Gatorade forgets about this demographic! — Mitch Hedberg
I felt beautiful when I was in Cambodia for Tomb Raider. I was sweaty, and my hair was matted and all over the place. And I was happy and hot and accomplishing a lot and running around, and I could feel my heart beating, and I felt beautiful. — Angelina Jolie
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things. — George Carlin
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple — Gene Wilder
To create great work, here's how you must spend your time:
1% Inspiration
9% Perspiration
90% Justification — George Lois
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
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
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
Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration. — Louise Erickson
It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull. — George Antheil
Innovation = Inspiration + Perspiration + Perseverance. — Juan Roman Riquelme
Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration. — Thomas A. Edison
Tomorrow's leaders not only have dreams, goals and plans. They are willing to work hard and to take responsibility for turning their plans into energy, perspiration and effort. They don't sit back and wait for someone else to turn their dreams into action. They take charge of executing their own plan. — Denis Waitley
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
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring. — H. L. Mencken
The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Give the laborer his wages before his perspiration be dry. — Mohammed
With dedication towards a destination and some perspiration one gets their heartfelt realization. — Mark Victor Hansen
In Washington, one man could do what ten of them do. There could be only a quarter or a third as many congressmen or senators, and we would pick better ones then. But it's the system that we have always used, and there is no use getting all overcome with perspiration over it. Things kinder run themselves, anyhow. — Will Rogers
Within less than an hour, Chuck and I easily located what could well be the correct platform, where we pass the time by perspiring freely until the train storms in, colorfully decorated, as is the tradition in New York, with the spray-painted initials of all the people it has run over. — Dave Barry
Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation. — Bill Bright
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
...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in the interests of group cohesion, and that learning to be critical and to think conceptually and rigorously do not come easily to the young but are hard-fought victories. — Neil Postman
Thomas Edison had great visions (for lights, music players, movies, etc.) but he knew they didn't count until he could make them work. His statement that creativity is 99% perspiration makes that point. Consider how much time he spent trying to make a synthetic rubber material for tires and never stopped trying but he never succeeded. — Philip Kotler
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