inspiration

Genius is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

proverb Genius or things considered to have the quality of genius may derive from brilliant ideas or intellect, but they require a huge amount of hard work to be successful. All these successful entrepreneurs had great ideas, sure, but they worked extremely hard to realize them. Genius is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
See also: 10, 90, and, genius, inspiration, percent
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Genius is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration.

Prov. People get brilliant results primarily by working hard, not because they have special inborn powers. Child: Betty always does the best drawings in art class. She must be a genius. Father: If you worked hard, you could do just as well. Remember, genius is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration.
See also: and, genius, inspiration, ninety, percent, perspiration, ten
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • Genius is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
  • Genius is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration
  • perspiration
  • teach a man to fish
  • village
  • it takes a village
  • a man is judged by his deeds, not by his words
  • actions speak louder than words
  • bad workers always blame their tools
  • the best-laid plans
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Biggest source of inspiration: My family, friends and God.
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Throughout artistic career, many artists lose their inspiration. However, inspiration and craving for art has never left the artist.
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Inspiration can sometimes be rooted and found in the most mundane of things because I really do believe that inspiration is a state of mind that is conditioned by, and comes from within.
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Not to cast aspersions on any profession but we have the doctors, engineers and billionaire entrepreneurs just to name a few.Yet society does not inform us we can opt out of this inexhaustive list and draw inspiration from so many other great careers and people.
That desire to reach one's dreams and ambitions, the burning passion that moves individuals to become better versions of themselves, and that strong yearning to uplift one's living conditions often stem from an inspiration: a person who may have mentored you, a company that allowed you to hone your talents, or a situation that simply left you aspiring for bigger and greater things.
Teresa Griffith agreed that a home in Inspiration would be a "dream come true" so she sold her home in Illinois last week, and is looking forward to her new home in Inspiration in spring 2018.
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