perspiration

Related to perspiration: insensible perspiration

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
  • inspiration
  • teach a man to fish
  • it takes a village
  • 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 of mice and men
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