Quotes About Perspiration

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

Gardening requires lots of water... most of it in the form of perspiration.

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

The problem with working slowly is not just that technical innovation happens slowly. It's that it tends not to happen at all. It's only when you're deliberately looking for hard problems, as a way to use speed to the greatest advantage, that you take on this kind of project. Developing new technology is a pain in the ass. It is, as Edison said, one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Without the incentive of wealth, no one wants to do it.

I was sweating like a bottle of beer in a biker bar

Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration.

Some unfortunate people, by their own account, sweat like pigs, no matter what they do. The expression is actually inappropriate, because pigs have no perspiration apparatus. That's why they wallow in mud.

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

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

Ladies glisten, men perspire, horses sweat. -Early Nun Quote, The Old Ursuline Convent (1727) New Orleans, LA

Living your dream is always the result of information, inspiration and perspiration.

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

I find that Burdock seed (or root) is beneficial for both profuse sweating and lack of perspiration.

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.