Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.
It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.
The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
Howard Shore, who's an amazing film composer, told me once that it's 10 percent inspiration, 90 percent perspiration. So I think even within the creative process, like being a producer, you're really managing people and getting the best out of them.
To create great work, here's how you must spend your time:
1% Inspiration
9% Perspiration
90% Justification
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
I've found the 90-10 rule to be pretty true: 90 percent of what I come up with and write down is kinda 'eh,' and then somehow, someway, 10 percent of it happens to work out really great in my act.
Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.
My reality is constantly feeling like I have to work 10 times harder and longer to make my case in the group, because my talent alone isn't enough.
Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!
Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.