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Tag Name "Perspiration" (30)

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Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.
Scott Belsky
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That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.
Yanni
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There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too.
Barack Obama
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Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.
Blaine Hogan
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Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes.
Carole King
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Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!
Denise Austin
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben
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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
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Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.
Johnny Miller
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With dedication towards a destination and some perspiration one gets their heartfelt realization.
Mark Victor Hansen
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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
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison
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Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
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Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
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Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
Vladislav Rastorotsky
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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
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Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.
Bill Bright
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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
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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
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To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification
George Lois
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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
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It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.
John Ruskin
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Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.
Louise Erickson
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...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
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