Creativity Incubation Quotes

#1. What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.

Oswald Chambers

#2. Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

Earl Wilson

#3. If his forces are united, separate them.

Sun Tzu

#4. Giving up is only an option when you are dead!

S.B. Santiago

#5. Laid out upright and end to end, the files the Stasi kept on their countrymen and women would form a line 180 kilometres long.

Anna Funder

#6. Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.

Georgia Harkness

#7. 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.

Gail Sheehy

#8. I'm not going to bargain in the media because I don't think that's appropriate.

Rachel Notley

#9. She feared God may not deliver her out of this mess, especially if He had a greater plan.

Jennifer Hudson Taylor

#10. If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening.

Sharon Stone