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

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William McFee, born on June 15, 1881, was a renowned Scottish writer. His works spanned various genres, including novels, plays, and poetry. McFee is known for his unique literary style and profound insights into social issues. more

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Children Made Hard Hands Energy Given Effort Doors Worst Cry Hardest Pockets Given Up Child Of God Sauntering Incubation Thinking 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.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Writing Mind Has Beens Ends Done Order Found Speak Difficult Hours Plans Example Months Return Capable Intensity Subconscious Topics Subconscious Mind Incubation

Author:Bertrand Russell

“There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.”

Long Moments Birth Periods Conception Incubation Gestation Gestation 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.”

Children Made Whole Form Felt Made It Womb Incubation

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.”

Should Has Beens Ideas Young Taken Like You Wine Storage Incubation

Author:Richard Strauss

“All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.”

Ideas Good Ideas Cows Incubation

Book:American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood's American Masterpiece

Source: American Gothic: The Biography of Grant Wood's American Masterpiece

“Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed.”

Littles Ideas Inspiration Night Force Middle Bed Flow Wake Up Flash Disabled Workshops Arriving Middle Of The Night Gadgets

Author:Trevor Baylis

“That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.”

Moments Inspiration Water Tablets

Author:Trevor Baylis

“And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!".”

Inspiration Found Water Seeing Cry Kings Gold Inspired Proportion Possessed Crowns Washing Computing Bathing Stools

Author:Plutarch

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