Certain Quote by Alastair Reynolds

“Anyone who has read a lot can tell you that the best ideas you take from a certain book often have nothing to do…

— Mark Manson

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

— Pearl Bailey

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Jonas Salk

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

— William Redington Hewlett

There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready.

— John Amaechi

Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a…

— Willard Gaylin

What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help…

— Alexi Murdoch

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely…

— Julia Cameron

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

— Amy Sedaris

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

— Roland Joffe