Genius Quote by Thomas 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…

— Caprice Crane

“It has been often said that writing is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. In my experience, this is true. But, in my…

— Robert Fanney

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

— Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

— Thomas Alva Edison

“The idea itself is the ten percent inspiration; the hammering it into a viable, successful, memorable story is the ninety percent perspiration that follows.”

— Chris Claremont

“If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.”

— Susan Cain

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

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.

— Thomas Alva Edison

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

— Louise Brooks

“Photography’s 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent moving furniture.”

— Gregory Heisler

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

— Thomas A. Edison

Ambition beats genius 99% of the time

— Jay Leno