...this life is the incubation period!

The creative act always requires a stepping back. It's called the incubation period. The incubation period - one of the four phases of creativity…

— Eric Weiner

“It takes three or four years before the present day sinks in to you as a novelist. It has not just to be accepted…

— Martin Amis

Smallpox can be personally devastating. After a 14-day incubation period, patients experience high fevers, headaches, and sometimes severe abdominal pain. A rash resembling chicken…

— Scott Gottlieb

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

— Alan Watts

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…

— David Berg

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

— William Jennings Bryan

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…

— Sylvester Stallone

“You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.”

— Ryan Lilly

Generating ideas is not a problem. Incubation is. Acceleration is.

— Rita Gunther McGrath

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…

— Meera Menon

The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my…

— Henry James

I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the…

— Thomas Jefferson

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,…

— Joseph Campbell

I think hanging out is the best incubation for cultural creation.

— Torrey Peters

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

— Trevor Baylis