I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me. — Trevor Baylis Copy Share Image
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape… — Henry James Copy Share Image
You don't necessarily need to go to film school to learn that part of it. But what I valued was that it… — Meera Menon Copy Share Image
Generating ideas is not a problem. Incubation is. Acceleration is. — Rita Gunther McGrath Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation.… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
The Lord may want to colonise other Worlds with His new perfect children! What's the whole Universe for and all this huge… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Often when works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, long or… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see yow they are getting on. — William McFee Copy Share Image
After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades -… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of… — Arthur Fry Copy Share Image
If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
You've been thinking about something without willing to for a long time...Then, all of a sudden, the problem is opened to you… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and… — Richard Strauss Copy Share Image
I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The creative act always requires a stepping back. It's called the incubation period. The incubation period - one of the four phases… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Live every day to fulfill your personal mission. God has a reason for whatever season you are living through right now. A… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie. — John Locke Copy Share Image
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
