A Quote by Thomas A. Edison

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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Brief Content Define Genius His Inspiration Nine Ninety Ninety Nine One Percent Percent Perspiration Quite Sentence

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

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.

Susan Cain

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

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

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

Thomas A. Edison

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

Yanni

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.

Douglas Adams

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Arthur Bloch

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

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

Mario Vargas Llosa

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.

Thomas A. Edison

Music is, by far, the best art. Nothing even comes close. It's so immediate and emotional. In writing, maybe ninety percent of it is the unconscious and ten percent is control. In music, I think it's probably more like ninety-nine percent the unconscious. It's just a beautiful thing happening through you. And so, too, is writing a great story.

T.C. Boyle

Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.

Jack Welch

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