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English term or phrase:
80 percent of success is showing up
English answer:
80 percent of success is in the process of arriving to start
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Stephanie Ezrol
Jul 26, 2010 12:23
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English term
80 percent of success is showing up
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what is the meaning?thanks in advance
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Jul 30, 2010 09:54: Stephanie Ezrol Created KOG entry
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Stephanie Ezrol
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French to English, English to English
Native in: English
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80 percent of success is in the process of arriving to start
I think the quote started with Woody Allen, and it is a variation of an older saying that 90 or so percent of genuis is hard work.
The idea is that to succeed you have to start working on an idea or project, not merely sit around and think or worry, but start -- show up to work on it.
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"According to Woody Allen, 80 percent of success is showing up. How someone shows up, how someone is perceived by others, accounts for the other 20 percent."
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/07/12/showing-up-is-80-percen...
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A REFERENCE TO THE ORIGIN OF THE PHRASE:
In the film "Love and Death," comedian Woody Allen coined the phrase: 80 percent of success is showing up. Bill Gates Sr. has taken that phrase to heart and paraphrased it for the title of his new book, "Showing Up for Life." Gates is the father of Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates Jr., whom his family calls Trey.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1279648...
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THE OLDER QUOTE ON GENUIS IS FROM THOMAS EDISON:
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration
Meaning
A saying that extols the benefits of hard work and effort.
Origin
This is probably the most famous line uttered by the inventor Thomas Alva Edison. If further explanation of the meaning is required he provided it by completing the quotation thus:
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident. They came by work."
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/146600.html
The idea is that to succeed you have to start working on an idea or project, not merely sit around and think or worry, but start -- show up to work on it.
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Note added at 13 mins (2010-07-26 12:36:37 GMT)
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"According to Woody Allen, 80 percent of success is showing up. How someone shows up, how someone is perceived by others, accounts for the other 20 percent."
http://djcoregon.com/news/2010/07/12/showing-up-is-80-percen...
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Note added at 15 mins (2010-07-26 12:38:31 GMT)
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A REFERENCE TO THE ORIGIN OF THE PHRASE:
In the film "Love and Death," comedian Woody Allen coined the phrase: 80 percent of success is showing up. Bill Gates Sr. has taken that phrase to heart and paraphrased it for the title of his new book, "Showing Up for Life." Gates is the father of Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates Jr., whom his family calls Trey.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1279648...
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Note added at 17 mins (2010-07-26 12:41:15 GMT)
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THE OLDER QUOTE ON GENUIS IS FROM THOMAS EDISON:
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration
Meaning
A saying that extols the benefits of hard work and effort.
Origin
This is probably the most famous line uttered by the inventor Thomas Alva Edison. If further explanation of the meaning is required he provided it by completing the quotation thus:
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident. They came by work."
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/146600.html
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Piotr Czyżewski
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coming itself is almost a guarantee of success
If you turn up, your success is 80 percent certain. You are very unlikely to fail if you are there.
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Context would help, though, as always...
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Note added at 12 mins (2010-07-26 12:35:26 GMT)
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Context would help, though, as always...
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: Right - and you definitely will NOT succeed if you do not make an appearance in the first place.
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Ildiko Santana
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Discussion
@ Stephanie:
The relevant quote could be Thomas Alva Edison's "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration" - or, possibly, Confucius: "A thousand miles journey begins with a single step."
This is an article about the 80:20 rule which refers to the fact that 80% of doing something may not need 80% of the total energy required