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“People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible”

People Inspiration Percent Ideals Plausible

Author:Will Rogers

“Genius defined: of inspiration 1% percent, of perspiration, 99%.”

Inspiration Genius Percent Defined Perspiration

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.”

Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction

“Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas.”

Giving Ideas Inspiration Turns Space White Teacher Percent Innovation Come Up Officials Colleagues Curriculum Singapore Space Time White Space

Author:Andy Hargreaves

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

Inspiration Secret Percent Masterpiece Perspiration

Author:Mario Vargas Llosa

“The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.”

Persons Inspiration Artist Type Percent Ultimate Singers Pianist Nina

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.”

Ifs Giving Inspiration Night Basketball Percent Court Criticize Every Night Basketball Success Give 100 Percent

Author:LeBron James

“The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about 42.4 percent of black women in America aren't married. Black women are shooting up the corporate ladder way faster than our black male counterparts. And (black men) are either dating outside their race, in jail or dying. And so if you want to have a family, you want to be married, you have to look at other options.”

“If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.”

People Ifs Inspirational Inspiration Percent Ethics Treats Thrive Ninety Ninety Nine Inspirational Presidential Inspiring Presidential Treat Me Right

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.”

Inspiration School Motivation Girl Three Levels Boys Five Percent Canada Graduates Elementary School Graduate School

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“There's no "magic secret"; writing is like everything else; ten percent inspiration or talent, and ninety percent hard work. Persistence; keeping at it till you get there. As Agnes de Mille said, it means working every day—bored, tired, weary, or with a fever of a hundred and two.”

Writing Mean Said Two Hard Inspiration Secret Magic Talent Hard Work Ten Percent Hundred Tired Bored Persistence Weary Ninety Fever

Author:Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent. We love its flash and dazzle. But great power lies in the other ninety-nine percent.”

Ifs Inspiration Lying Culture Genius Percent Nine Persistence Flash Ninety Glamorous Great Power Ninety Nine Dazzle Perspiration

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”