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  • The creative act always requires a stepping back. It's called the incubation period. The incubation period - one of the four phases of creativity - is when you're not consciously thinking of a problem, and you're letting it marinate. So this is why you hear time and again, people saying they had that "Eureka" moment in the bath, like Archimedes, or in the shower, or while going for a walk or in a coffeehouse.

    "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.
  • I was doing a campaign once for a manufacturer, and I couldn't think of an ideas, and I was kind of desperate about it. The night before I had to show something to my client I had a dream, an interesting dream. I woke up and for once in my life I wrote it down and went back to sleep Next morning I went to the office and had that dream out into a TV commercial which is still running thirty years after and which has made that particular product the leader in its field.

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

    Humble   Night   House  
  • When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

    "An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding".
  • You don't necessarily need to go to film school to learn that part of it. But what I valued was that it gives you that incubation and time to figure out who you are, what kind of stories you want to tell, and how you want to forge your path.

    School   Giving   Stories  
    "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.
  • Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

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

    Ideas   Cows   Incubation  
    Thomas Hoving, Grant Wood (2005). “American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood's American Masterpiece”, Chamberlain Brothers
  • You've been thinking about something without willing to for a long time...Then, all of a sudden, the problem is opened to you in a flash and you suddenly see the answer.

    Thinking   Long   Answers  
  • After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

  • 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.

  • A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

    Men   Ideas   Incubation  
    "Harbours of Memory" by William McFee, (p. 236), 1921.
  • Live every day to fulfill your personal mission. God has a reason for whatever season you are living through right now. A season of loss or blessing? A season of activity or hibernation? A season of growth or incubation? You may think you're on a detour, but God knows the best way for you to reach your destination.

    Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.54, Zondervan
  • It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.

    Book   Writing   Thinking  
  • Generating ideas is not a problem. Incubation is. Acceleration is.

  • Art is the ability to communicate through an intermediary and to convey one's feelings through an isolated object. It's inspiration and incubation. Putting my subjective feelings into an objective form and then on to you for a subjective interpretation.

    "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.
  • Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

    Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”
  • I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c.

    Science   Eggs   Cheese  
    Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.73
  • You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

    Children   Form   Made  
  • If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

    Ideas   Giving   Creative  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.237, Penguin
  • I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.

    Ideas   Brain   Settling  
  • The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand have sprung from a single small seed, a seed as remote and windblown as a casual hint.

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

  • Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease that spreads via the airborne route or can be transmitted during the incubation period, before an infected person shows telltale signs of illness.

    "Are We Prepared? An Exclusive Interview with WHO Director-General Margaret Chan". “Next Outbreak” with Joanne Silberner, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2015.
  • Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.

    Taken   Wine   Ideas  
  • You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry, "Here we are." You expend effort and energy thinking hard. Then, after you have given up, they come sauntering in with their hands in their pockets. If the effort had not been made to open the door, however, who knows when they could have come.

  • You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.

    Morning   Creative   Use  
    Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.115, Anchor
  • I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with very great intensity-the greatest intensity of which I am capable-for a few hours or days, and at the end of that time give orders, so to speak (to my subconscious mind) that the work is to proceed underground. After some months I return consciously to the topic and find that the work has been done.

  • One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.

  • It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

    Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2
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