Livin' the life...

The key to getting a PhD is maybe 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration, combined with a liberal sprinkling of reflection...

Yes, to get a PhD you need to be bright, you need ideas and you need to do good research. But more than anything else you need persistence. You need to commit yourself to getting up and doing it again today.   ...

This gift of reflection, noting our actions and learning from them is one of the real characteristics of true intelligence, birds do it, bees do it and yet so often we fail to do it. It's so much easier to avoid reflection, to avoid action - and yet these are the keys to true success, in life, in business, in a PhD. (Source)

Really inspirational stuff.. I suppose one could apply this to other courses and even to life. For me though, I doubt that 10%-90% would do it, God is crucial to my, and one could even say, all of our success.

On the side: Hey Matt and Kat! I figure you're the only two other phd students reading this! So I hope you find it useful!!