Gestation Quotes

20 quotes by 18 authors

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
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
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
There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation. — Jonas Salk
Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer â€” and non-disturbance. — Jane Hirshfield
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
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over… — Tillie Olsen
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
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. — Wole Soyinka
I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years. — Roland Joffe
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
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul. — Richard Ellmann
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
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
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
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
If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period. — Kevin O'Leary
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
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
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: