Bright ideas Quote by Julia Cameron

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

— Julia Cameron

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some…

— Oprah Winfrey

I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait…

— Wole Soyinka

A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes…

— Rosamond Lehmann

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

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

In the past we could afford a long gestation period before undertaking major environmental policy initiatives. Today the time for a well-planned transition to…

— Kofi Annan