A Quote by Robert Riskin

Art is 110 percent sweat.

Robert Riskin

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Art Art Is Percent Sweat

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Robert Riskin
American - Writer
March 30, 1897 - September 20, 1955

Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.

John Wooden

Physiologists and high-performance trainers understand now that the concept of 110 percent is no longer a smart way to train. Fitness is like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade. Give 110 percent, and you won't build your body up, but actually break it down. And be no good to yourself or anyone else.

Sally Jenkins

You have to have a lot more dedication to what I'll call 'the machine,' ... I have 20 percent dedication. What's needed is 110 percent. You can't have it with the level of apathy I have.

Janeane Garofalo

In the Miss America system talent is worth 50 percent of a contestant's points so my mom encouraged me to give it a try. And once I decided to do it, like anything else, I gave it 110 percent.

Gretchen Carlson

Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.

DMX

On the road to WrestleMania, this is where everyone's giving 110 percent.

Drew McIntyre

I give 110 percent, and that's in practice and every game and everything.

Terry Rozier

Whatever the coach calls, I'm going to give 110 percent.

Frank Gore

Hell, the important thing is to do what you want to do, and give it 110 percent.

George Blanda

Sweat, sweat, sweat! Work and sweat, cry and sweat, pray and sweat!

Zora Neale Hurston

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

Soulja Boy

But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.

Sam Donaldson

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.

Don Zimmer

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.

Don Zimmer

It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad. But 85 percent of all art made in the Renaissance was bad.