Incubation Quotes · Page 2

Problems, however, are rarely solved on the spur of the moment. They must be organized and dissected, then key issues isolated and…

— William Redington Hewlett

Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.

— Gail Sheehy

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

— Jonas Salk

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

— Jean Cocteau

I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

— Claude Monet

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

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

— Grant Wood

Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease…

— Margaret Chan

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it…

— Gertrude Stein

It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a…

— Bertrand Russell

I was doing a campaign once for a manufacturer, and I couldn't think of an ideas, and I was kind of desperate…

— David Ogilvy

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

— Jean Cocteau

The first mistake is believing that transformational initiatives can be accomplished through normal channels and means. This cannot be done because there…

— Geoffrey Moore