Defined Quote by Thomas A. Edison Download Open image “Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.” — Thomas A. Edison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defined Genius Inspiration Intelligence Percent Perspiration
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
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… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. — Thomas Edison Copy Share Image
That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true. — Yanni Copy Share Image
“Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent perspiration.” To make great ideas a reality, we must act, experiment, fail, adapt, and learn on… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
“If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I will not say I failed 1000 times, I will say that I discovered there are 1000 ways that can cause failure — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The very first thing an executive must have is a fine memory. Of course it does not follow that a man with a fine… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The brain can be developed just the same as the muscles can be developed, if on will only take the pains to train the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest ...But here is the point: If the Nation can issue a dollar… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
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One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
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