Staircase Closet

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

Only ideas that we actually live by are of any value. - Hermann Hesse

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. - Evita Peron

What two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia? - Sydney Smith

When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it. - Sigmund Freud

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out. - Chinese Proverb

I know the voices aren't real but they have some great ideas. - Unknown

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. - Grant Wood

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly. - Michel de Montaigne

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. - Steven Wright

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. - Alfred Nobel

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. - Bo Bennett

A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs. - Joan Welsh

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? - George Eliot

You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet. - Mark McGwire

While you were busy judging others you left your closet open and your skeletons fell out. - Unknown

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the window which hope has opened. - Charles Spurgeon

A habit cannot be tossed out the window. It must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time. - Mark Twain

I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones. - John Cage

I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism. - Fred White

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. - Fran Lebowitz

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. - Evan Esar

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck

They want people like your mother down there because they know they ain't got no pre-conscrewed ideas. - Archie Bunker

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night. - Josh Fox

Adults are always asking children what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas. - Paula Poundstone

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof. - Alan Moore

How many ideas have there been in the history of the human race that were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Everyone has a skeleton in their closet. The difference between Bill Clinton and myself is that he has a walk-in closet. - Pat Buchanan

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

Take two ideas and put them together to make one new idea. After all, what is a Snuggie but the mutation of a blanket and a robe? - Jim Kukral

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. - Alfred North Whitehead

The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions. - Harvey Mackay

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any. - Orson S. Card