Dr. Luke

Howard Shore, who's an amazing film composer, told me once that it's 10 percent inspiration, 90 percent perspiration. So I think even within the creative process, like being a producer, you're really managing people and getting the best out of them.

Suzanne Somers

You should drink at least eight glasses of water a day in order to stay regular, lose weight, and detoxify. Our bodies are mostly made of water, and yet we lose two to three quarts of it every day through perspiration and other bodily functions.

American Actress

Abraham Lincoln

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.

American President

Bil Keane

In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

American Cartoonist

Greg Lake

It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.

British Musician

Harlan Coben

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

American Author

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

American Businesswoman

Rajesh Roshan

I think there is less of inspiration and more of perspiration in the music industry.

Indian Director

Napoleon Hill

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Thomas A. Edison

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

American Inventor

Understand 'perspiration' signifies a bodily function, but isn't used for all kinds of excretion.

Physical Reaction

'Perspiration' can indicate stress or anxiety; it's not just from heat or illness.

Emotional Response

Sometimes used to describe any type of moisture, like condensation on a glass.

Non-Literal Use

Used metaphorically to show effort, even if the person isn't actually sweating.

Figurative Expression

In literature, 'perspiration' often highlights a character's hard work or anxiety.

Literary Description

 and vibrant all of the time. All that effort put towards pretending that you're not going through a natural process of aging is a complete waste of time. Meanwhile, a day in the life of a peri- or postmenopausal woman could be running to the bathroom to wait out a hot flush, looking for paper towels for perspiration that came out of nowhere

Andrea Berchowitz: The...

 drown them in a puddle of perspiration, shove the imperfections I should be proud of under my gap-tooth smile, my frizzy hair, my funny shaped head, the extra weight that kept me grounded, the missing pounds that make me

Beach Bodies (in spoken...

 with us science has offered possible explanations for firewalking one is that perspiration forms a buffer of vapor between skin and coal but back at the