Bringing incredible creative projects to life demands much hard work down in the trenches of day-to-day idea execution. Genius truly is '1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.'

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"For too long, the creative world has focused on idea generation at the expense of idea execution. As the legendary inventor Thomas Edison famously said, 'Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent perspiration.' To make great ideas a reality, we must act, experiment, fail, adapt, and learn on a daily basis."

- Jocelyn K. Glei

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