A Quote by Thomas A. Edison

Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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Genius Inspiration Perspiration

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Thomas A. Edison
American - Inventor
February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931

Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.

Thomas A. Edison

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

Thomas A. Edison

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

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

Yanni

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Thomas A. Edison

For me genius is '1% inspiration and 99% procrastination.'

Richard Herring

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

Thomas A. Edison

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.