Top 1200 Gestation Period Quotes & Sayings

I love my wife. Period. Period. Period.

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

Of course, such judicial misconstruction theoretically can be cured by constitutional amendment. But the period of gestation of a constitutional amendment, or of any law reform, is reckoned in decades usually; in years, at least. And, after all, as the Court itself asserted in overruling the minimum-wage cases, it may not be the Constitution that was at fault.

Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance.

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.

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don't function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.

10:38 AM - Third period. Kaylee has no class this period. I have no one to kill. Coincidence, or fate?

Nationalism is like alcoholism: a short period of exaltation followed by a long period of headaches.

The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision - whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.

I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.

Everything is gestation and then birthing.

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.

I've asked people not to leak things for a period of time and give me a honeymoon period.

Initially, you have to live a period where you are developing your attitude. I would consider that a meditation: determining what you want to do. You have a period where you meditate and you get the strength.

In the past we could afford a long gestation period before undertaking major environmental policy initiatives. Today the time for a well-planned transition to a sustainable system is running out. We may be moving in the right direction, but we are moving too slowly. We are failing in our responsibility to future generations and even the present one.

It is only after mature deliberation and thorough preparation that I have decided upon the Program of Revolution and defined the procedure of the revolution in three stages. The first is the period of military government; the second, the period of political tutelage; and the third, the period of constitutional government.

Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that this work of Nietzsche's played much role in the gestation of the novella.

Usually, the best ideas come from other people's good ideas, which then, after a short gestation period, become your ideas.

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

Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

The mistake we make with many people - not just Russia - is that we believe we have the model, and there is a sort of a condescension in our dialogue with other societies, which was especially painful in several administrations to Russia. I think in Russia, the Yeltsin period is not considered a period of great achievement, but a period of corruption and humiliation.

Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.

Sometimes when you're working on a period piece, there's this tendency to be nostalgic about the period and do everything superglamorous, which can end up looking cliche.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.

McDonald's says it's phasing out pig gestation crates. When I heard that news, I almost started crying.

I like to know what the gestation of the idea is, I like to know the foundation, and I do a lot of reading and research.

Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.

Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.

Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period.

In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.

Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.

There are a lot of period dramas out there but not many opportunities for a mixed-race actress to play a period role.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

History asks us to imagine ourselves in a period, but it's a very different situation when you're in that period and faced with those situations.

I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic.

Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.

You know, writing isn't easy. It's tedious. Ideas have a gestation period, and after a while, it becomes difficult.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary.

There are some people the gestation period is like an elephant's and it's just years and years before they're ready.

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.

There was a period in my life where I went out a lot and I had a really good time. But that period is over.

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.

A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up to the surface at a given moment. A period of gestation is certainly needed, what Wordsworth called ‘emotion recollected in tranquility.’ You cannot write about an experience when you are living it, suffering it. You are too busy surviving to look at it objectively. At least I can’t.

What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in which we came very, very close to a demagogic immobilization of racism in this society.

I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.

Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced.

When I'm in writing mode I tend not to listen to music. I usually have a gestation period before I start writing. When I'm listening, it usually happens on the road. So, we'd been listening to a lot of music on tour the year before and all that stuff sank in.

I have friends who say, 'I don't want to do period now because I have done a period piece and I need to wait for two years' - I don't have that.

You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.

The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices to flow.