天才は1パーセントが霊感であり、99パーセントは精進である。
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English Translation
        Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
    
Furigana
Romanji
        Tensai wa ichi pa-sento ga reikan de ari, kyū kyū pa-sento wa shōjin de aru.
    
Words
            
                天才
            
            
                (てんさい)
            
        
        
            genius; prodigy; natural gift
        
    
            
                は
            
            
                (は)
            
        
        
            topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
        
    
            
                一
            
            
                (いち)
            
        
        
            one; best; first; foremost; beginning; start; bottom string (on a shamisen, etc.)
        
    
            
                パーセント
            
            
                (パーセント)
            
        
        
            percent; percentage
        
    
            
                が
            
            
                (が)
            
        
        
            indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and
        
    
            
                霊感
            
            
                (れいかん)
            
        
        
            inspiration; afflatus; ability to sense the supernatural (esp. ghosts, etc.)
        
    
            
                だ
            
            
                (だ)
            
        
        
            be; is; indicates past or completed action; indicates light imperative
        
    
            
                或
            
            
                (ある)
            
        
        
            a certain ...; some ...
        
    
            
                九
            
            
                (きゅう、く、ここの、この、ここ)
            
        
        
            nine
        
    
            
                精進
            
            
                (しょうじん、そうじん、しょうじ、そうじ)
            
        
        
            concentration; diligence; devotion; asceticism; zeal in one's quest for enlightenment; adherence to a vegetarian diet
        
    Kanji
Readings: テン、 あまつ、 あめ、 あま-
                        Meanings: heavens, sky, imperial
                    Reading: サイ
                        Meanings: genius, years old, cubic shaku
                    Readings: レイ、 リョウ、 たま
                        Meanings: spirits, soul
                    Reading: カン
                        Meanings: emotion, feeling, sensation
                    Readings: セイ、 ショウ、 シヤウ
                        Meanings: refined, ghost, fairy, energy, vitality, semen, excellence, purity, skill
                    Readings: シン、 すす.む、 すす.める
                        Meanings: advance, proceed, progress, promote