Incubation Quotes - Page 2

• I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me.

  Trevor Baylis

  Ideas, Energy, Gadgets

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• When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

  John Locke

  Dream, Philosophical, Reflection

  "An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding".

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• The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation.

  Jean Cocteau

  Humble, Night, House

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• Often when works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, long or short, and sits down anew to the work. During the first half-hour, as before, nothing is found, and then all of a sudden the decisive idea presents itself to the mind.

  Henri Poincare

  Ideas, Long, Mind

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• Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

  Paul Gauguin

  Nature, Yield, Essence

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• You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.

  Joseph Campbell

  Morning, Creative, Use

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor

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• I was doing a campaign once for a manufacturer, and I couldn't think of an ideas, and I was kind of desperate about it. The night before I had to show something to my client I had a dream, an interesting dream. I woke up and for once in my life I wrote it down and went back to sleep Next morning I went to the office and had that dream out into a TV commercial which is still running thirty years after and which has made that particular product the leader in its field.

  David Ogilvy

  Running, Dream, Morning

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• If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Ideas, Giving, Creative

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.237, Penguin

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• It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.

  Bertrand Russell

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Live every day to fulfill your personal mission. God has a reason for whatever season you are living through right now. A season of loss or blessing? A season of activity or hibernation? A season of growth or incubation? You may think you're on a detour, but God knows the best way for you to reach your destination.

  Barbara Johnson

  Loss, Blessing, Thinking

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.54, Zondervan

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• You don't necessarily need to go to film school to learn that part of it. But what I valued was that it gives you that incubation and time to figure out who you are, what kind of stories you want to tell, and how you want to forge your path.

  Meera Menon

  School, Giving, Stories

  "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• The Lord may want to colonise other Worlds with His new perfect children! What's the whole Universe for and all this huge amount of space if He's only interested in colonising one little Planet? What an incubation! What an incubator for other civilizations!-Right here on the New Earth and the Heavenly City!

  David Berg

  Children, Other Worlds, Civilization

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• After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Important, New Life

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• Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation. Putting my subjective feelings into an objective form and then on to you for a subjective interpretation.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Art, Inspiration, Feelings

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease that spreads via the airborne route or can be transmitted during the incubation period, before an infected person shows telltale signs of illness.

  Margaret Chan

  Mean, Ebola, Worst Case Scenario

  "Are We Prepared? An Exclusive Interview with WHO Director-General Margaret Chan". “Next Outbreak” with Joanne Silberner, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2015.

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• Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Democracy, Shapes, Patterns

  Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

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