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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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• There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

  Harlan Coben

  Inspiration, Three, Desperation

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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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• Honey comes out of the air At early dawn the leaves of trees are found bedewed with honey. Whether this is the perspiration of the sky or a sort of saliva of the stars, or the moisture of the air purging itself, nevertheless it brings with it the great pleasure of its heavenly nature. It is always of the best quality when it is stored in the best flowers.

  Pliny the Elder

  Stars, Flower, Food

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• Innovation = Inspiration + Perspiration + Perseverance.

  Juan Roman Riquelme

  Perseverance, Inspiration, Creativity

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• Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.

  Bill Bright

  Inspiration, Frustration, Stagnation

  Bill Bright (1970). “Come Help Change the World”

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• Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration!

  Thomas A. Edison

  Business, Inspiration

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• The next phase and this is part of what I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration. There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too. That you have to be organized, that you have to vote even when it's not exciting.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiration, Littles, Next

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• 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

  Dream, Responsibility, Hard Work

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• Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

  Vladislav Rastorotsky

  Motivational, Believe, Inspiration

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• Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

  Johnny Miller

  Success, Sports, Inspiration

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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

  Prayer, Wind, Soul

  David Brainerd (1822). “Memoirs of the Rev. David Brainerd: Missionary to the Indians on the Borders of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania: Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary”, p.58

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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

  Inspiration, Writing, People

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• When this love, the heavenly gift of Nature, appears in the heart, it removes all causes of excitation from the system and cools it down to a perfectly normal state; and invigorating the vital powers, expels all foreign matters- the germs of diseases-by natural ways (perspiration and so forth). It thereby makes man perfectly healthy in body and mind, And enables him to understand properly the guidance of Nature.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Love, Heart, Men

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• The bath soothes the nerves. It promotes general perspiration, quickens the circulation, overcomes obstruction in the system, and acts beneficially on the kidneys and the urinary organs. Bathing helps the bowels, stomach, and liver, giving energy and new life to each. It also promotes digestion and instead of the system being weakened, it is strengthened...and a more easy and regular flow of the blood through all the blood vessels is obtained.

  Ellen G. White

  Blood, Giving, New Life

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• That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

  Yanni

  Inspiration, Genius, Adages

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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• There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too.

  Barack Obama

  Littles, Involved

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen well that's who I wanted to be at last a woman in the old style sitting stout thighs apart under a big skirt grandchild sliding on off my lap a pleasant summer perspiration that's my old man across the yard he's talking to the meter reader he's telling him the world's sad story how electricity is oil or uranium and so forth I tell my grandson run over to your grandpa ask him to sit beside me for a minute I am suddenly exhausted by my desire to kiss his sweet explaining lips.

  Grace Paley

  Summer, Running, Sweet

  Grace Paley (2016). “Begin Again: Poems by Gracey Paley”, p.199, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Creativity, Player, Light

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• Failure is important because the first time you win (or lose), it could be luck, it could be timing, or it could be talent. It's only after you fail once or twice and learn to rely equally on thought, analysis, and anticipation-in addition to speed, talent, and execution-that you can really call yourself an entrepreneur ... In the long run, it's mind over muscle, strategy over strength, and a healthy perspective-not just a lot of perspiration-that make someone a real success in his or her business and in the equally important rest of his or her life.

  Howard A. Tullman

  Running, Real, Winning

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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

  Laughter, Eye, Air

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Cheerfulness As A Life Power (Unabridged): How to Avoid the Soul-Consuming and Friction-Wearing Tendencies of Everyday Life”, p.5, e-artnow

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• The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallow subcategory. He's got esprit up to here. Right now, he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. 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. Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel: feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Night, Light

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.1, Spectra

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• In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

  Bil Keane

  Real, Inspiration, Cartoon

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• Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Inspiration, Clothes

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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

  Jobs, Real, Inspiration

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