“One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.” Quote by Albert Einstein
“I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find some new close fits from other information stored in my brain.” MindProblemTurnsBrainInformationFitConsciousPatternsUnconsciousUnconscious MindIncubation Author:Arthur Fry
“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 of gestation then sets in, during which these issues are mulled over. You put them in your mind and consciously or unconsciously work at them at odd hours of the day or night - even at work. It is somewhat analogous to trying to place a name on the face of someone you've met before. Often the solution to a problem comes to you in much the same way you eventually recall the name.” WayTryingMindMomentsProblemFacesNightNamesHoursIssuesKeysPeriodsMetsSolutionsDefinedOddOrganizedOver YouWorking ItIsolatedRecallsSpursSolution To A ProblemIncubationGestationSpur Of The MomentGestation Period Author:William Redington Hewlett
“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.” ThinkingLongProblemAnswersWillingLong TimeFlashIncubation Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini
“A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.” MenIdeasYoungGrowsYoung ManIncubation Author:William McFee
“I waited for the idea to consolidate, for the grouping and composition of themes to settle themselves in my brain.” IdeasBrainSettlingThemeCompositionIncubation Author:Claude Monet
“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.” IfsThinkingKnowsChildrenMadeHardHandsEnergyGivenEffortDoorsWorstCryHardestPocketsGiven UpChild Of GodSaunteringIncubationThinking Hard Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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.” IfsThinkingGivingWritingMindHas BeensEndsDoneOrderFoundSpeakDifficultHoursPlansExampleMonthsReturnCapableIntensitySubconsciousTopicsSubconscious MindIncubation Author:Bertrand Russell
“There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.” LongMomentsBirthPeriodsConceptionIncubationGestationGestation Period Author:Jonas Salk
“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.” ChildrenMadeWholeFormFeltMade ItWombIncubation Author:Gertrude Stein
“Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.” ShouldHas BeensIdeasYoungTakenLike YouWineStorageIncubation Author:Richard Strauss