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Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!
Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too.
Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
I think there is less of inspiration and more of perspiration in the music industry.
Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.
My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
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.
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.
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.
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.