Zitat des Tages über Schweiß / Perspiration:
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
It's true when they say songwriting is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. In truth, what happens is... songs comes through you.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.