Incubation Time Quotes & Sayings

If you go back and look at the historical record, it turns out that a lot of important ideas have very long incubation periods. I call this the 'slow hunch.' We've heard a lot recently about hunch and instinct and blink-like sudden moments of clarity, but in fact, a lot of great ideas linger on, sometimes for decades, in the back of people's minds. They have a feeling that there's an interesting problem, but they don't quite have the tools yet to discover them." Solving the problem means being in the right place at the right time - available to the propitious moment, the kairos. Perhaps counterintuitively, protecting what is left of this flow from the pressing obligation of new choices gives us a leg up on innovation. — Douglas Rushkoff

We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Your boss takes a dim view of SEX? — Vincent H. O'Neil

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. — Eric Weiner

Being genuinely stunned by overwhelming kindness is one of my favorite occurrences in life. — Kim Holden

It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers. — Dan Wells

I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after. — Amanda Hocking

I am weary of happiness, both as a word and as a concept. — Meghan Daum

I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future. — Lu Xun

They judged me like they would judge themselves and that's what they could never understand, we are all human but we are not the same. — Nikki Rowe

In the South, I think, food mirrors our lives. When I was growing up, no matter what you were grieving or celebrating, my mama would be at the door with a cake or a pie. — Kimberly Schlapman

We never learn to value what is simple; what is difficult is worthy to us. But, the beauty of life is in the simplicity. — Debasish Mridha

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. — Bertrand Russell

When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love. — Margaret George

Even if you strive diligently on your chosen path day after day, if your heart is not in accord with it, then even if you think you are on a good path, from the point of view of the straight and true, this is not a genuine path. If you do not pursue a genuine path to its consummation, then a little bit of crookedness in the mind will later turn into a major warp. Reflect on this. — Miyamoto Musashi

The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn. — William Shakespeare

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

Hesitantly, she walked to the bathroom door that he'd left partially open. He stood in front of the sink, wiping the blood away with a washcloth.
"What are you going to do with me?"
His hand paused under his chin and he met her gaze in the mirror.
The hatred in the dark stare chilled her all the way to her soul. "I don't know," he said at last. "I've never had anyone stupid enough to break into my house."
-Shahara & Syn — Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years. — Janine Di Giovanni