
“Mille choses avancent, neuf cent quatre-vingt dix-huit reculent; c’est là le progrès.”
Journal intime
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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Citation rapportée
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Spoken statement (c. 1903); published in Harper's Monthly (September 1932).
Variants:
None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Statement in a press conference (1929), as quoted in Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh (1987) by James D. Newton, p. 24.
Variant forms without early citation: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
"Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
1900s
Variante: Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety nine perspiration.
“Mille choses avancent, neuf cent quatre-vingt dix-huit reculent; c’est là le progrès.”
Journal intime
Ninety-five percent of the forager bees trail along with their sisters. But 5 percent do not follow the crowd. In bad times, the number of searcher bees can more than triple.
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(Animal behavior experts call that dominance cues).
Le génie de la bête : une révision radicale du capitalisme, 2010
It is said of me that when I was young I divided my time impartially among wine, women and song. I deny this categorically. Ninety percent of my interests were women !
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Wikiquote
A propos de sa vie personnelle
“L'expérience, jeunes gens, c'est dix mille fois la même chose répétée cent mille fois.”
Un loup est un loup, 2005