Camp Fire All-Nighter

No author is a man of genius to his publisher. - Heinrich Heine

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

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. - Josh Billings

Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned. - Jeremy Taylor

Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. - Laurie Anderson

There was never a great genius without a tincture of madness. - Aristotle

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas. - Unknown

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. - C.W. Ceram

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

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry. - D.G. Mitchell

She's mad but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire. - Charles Bukowski

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

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see and hits it. - Unknown

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

Be enthusiastic as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match. - Unknown

Don't focus on regrets; find your inspiration in what you can do now. - Catherine Pulsifer

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. - Dave Barry

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. - George Eliot

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice. - Ethel Merman

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. - Mitchell Kapor

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

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. - Joe Thiesmann

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald, but if he has fire, women will like him. - Mae West

This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. - Thomas Jefferson

Success is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration, and 2 percent attention to detail. - Phil

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

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

When you do not know what you are doing, and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. - Robert Bresson

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. - Bob Nelson

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

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. - Marilyn Monroe

Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love. - William Shakespeare

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

Camping is not a date; it's an endurance test. If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home. - Yvonne Prinz

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it was stupid. - Albert Einstein

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. - George Carlin