Perspiration Quotes

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  Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.6, Lulu.com

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• Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932.

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

  Evan Esar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Evan Esar (1961). “Humorous English: a guide to comic usage, jocular speech and writing, and witty grammar”

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• Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes.

  Carole King

  Inspiration

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• The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Inspiration, Secret, Masterpiece

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

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• Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration!

  Denise Austin

  Success, Inspiration, Desperation

  FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Aug 26, 2011

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• Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

  George Foreman

  Inspiration, Excellence

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• Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Design, Invention

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• Being busy does not always mean real work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Real, Mean, Infinite Intelligence

  Ford Times, Volume 6 (p. 136), 1912.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ninety Nine

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• Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

  Gene Wilder

  Funny, Humorous, Directors

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

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• 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

  Inspiration, Ninety Nine, Needs

  "Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James D. Newton, 1987.

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• Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Educational, Genius

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• Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Invention

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• Most, if not all, creativity is born out of perspiration rather than inspiration.

  Blaine Hogan

  Inspiration, Creativity, Born

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• Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Billiards, Pool

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• Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspiration, Hard Work, Science

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• Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

  Louise Erickson

  Funny, Hard Work, Garden

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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

  Positive, Inspiration, Ninety Nine

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• Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.

  Scott Belsky

  Creativity, Play, Creative

  Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.74, Penguin

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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

  Perseverance, Thinking, Victory

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.146, Penguin

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• Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  "Reflection on Ice-breaking" l. 1 (1931)

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• To create great work, here's how you must spend your time:
  1% Inspiration
  9% Perspiration
  90% Justification

  George Lois

  Inspiration, Design, Great Work

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