"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration" is Edison's famous saying. There is another sentence behind this famous saying widely circulated in China: "But the 1% of inspiration is the most important, even more important than the 99% of sweat."

Edison's original words: The

Talent is 1% inspiration adds on 99% sweat, certainly, does not have

that 1% inspiration.

in the world all sweat to put or bring together also

only is the sweat!

Translation: Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Of course, without that one percent inspiration, all the sweat in the world adds up to nothing. It’s just sweat!

Extended information:

Edison's famous aphorisms

1. If you want to succeed, use perseverance as your good friend, experience as your adviser, and prudence as your brother. Bar.

2. Anyone who hopes to spend his old age with honor and comfort must think that one day he will grow old when he is young: in this way, when he is old, he will also remember that he was young.

3. There is a solution to every problem, and there is nothing unimaginable. If you really get to the point where it is impossible to imagine, you can only blame yourself for being a fool and a lazy person.

4. There is nothing of real value in the world that can be obtained without hard work.

5. Failure is also what I need. It is as valuable to me as success. Only after I know all the ways to do a job poorly can I know the way to do a job well.

6. My philosophy of life is work, and I want to reveal the mysteries of nature. And use it to benefit mankind. I don't know of any service that could be better than this in the short time we are alive.

7. Restlessness and dissatisfaction are the first necessities for progress.

8. If you want to succeed, you should use perseverance as your friend, experience as your counselor, caution as your brother, and hope as your sentinel.

9. Beauty is the most direct thing that touches the soul. Beauty immediately permeates the imagination with an inner sense of joy and satisfaction.

10. When a person is young, if he does not think, he will achieve nothing.

11. Those who do not make up their mind to develop thinking habits will lose the greatest joy in life.

12. If people can eliminate the root causes of disasters with compassion, charity and humane behavior, more than half of the disasters in life can be eliminated.

13. A person must first go through difficulties and then step into good times before he feels useful and comfortable.

14. Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

15. Many failures in life are because people don’t know how close they were to success when they gave up.

16. You think I am the child of destiny, but in fact I am creating my own destiny.

17. I have never made an accidental invention in my life. All my inventions are the result of careful consideration and rigorous testing.

18. If I have more or less inspired the efforts of some people, and our work has more or less expanded the scope of human ideals, thus adding joy to the world, then I I feel satisfied.

19. If you want to succeed, you should use perseverance as your good friend, experience as your counselor, prudence as your brother, and hope as your sentinel.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Edison