Staircase Closet

Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey

I do not get ideas; ideas get me. - Robertson Davies

The artist in me cries out for design. - Robert Frost

Everyone is in love with their own ideas. - Carl Jung

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Goethe

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them. - Alfred N Whitehead

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

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. - Linus Pauling

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

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas. - James Roy Newman

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration. - Cicero

The best ideas come as joe-ks. Make your thinking as funny as possibell. - Joe-kster

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

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless. - Wilson Mizner

It is better to have ten skeletons in your closet, than walk with no bones. - Anthony Liccione

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools. - Sebastien Chamfort

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

Inspiration responds to our attentiveness in various and sometimes unexpected ways. - Wayne W Dyer

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. - Bill Moyers

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

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale. - Elon Musk

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

The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. - Joe Girard

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

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. - Mark Twain

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others. - John C Maxwell

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

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

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

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence. - William A. Ward

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Focus on the core problem your business solves and put out lots of content and enthusiasm, and ideas about how to solve that problem. - Laura Fitton

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. - Spinoza