Gestation Quotes
20 quotes by 18 authors
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I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.
— Manuel Gonzalez Flores
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Problems, however, are rarely solved on the spur of the moment. They must be organized and dissected, then key issues isolated and defined. A period…
— William Redington Hewlett
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There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.
— Jonas Salk
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Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance.
— Jane Hirshfield
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A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up…
— Rosamond Lehmann
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Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over…
— Tillie Olsen
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Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on…
— Scott Simon
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
— Wole Soyinka
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I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
— Roland Joffe
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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.
— Julia Cameron
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.
— Richard Ellmann
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Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to…
— Wole Soyinka
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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its…
— Aberjhani
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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 us…
— Alexi Murdoch
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If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.
— Kevin O'Leary
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Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously…
— Willard Gaylin
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In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can…
— Jacques Barzun
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Everything is gestation and then birthing.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Who Wrote These Gestation Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 20 Gestation Quotes as follows: