Quotes: Albert Einstein

"I think 99 times and I find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me."

–– Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-born American theoretical physicist 

Quotes: Norbert Platt

"The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought. This in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium." 

–– Norbert Platt (b. 1951), senior executive in European luxury goods industry & former Montblanc CEO 

Source: Elle Decoration UK, January 2013, p. 15. 

via: Sketchbook 20, 2013, p. 118

Quotes: Walter Bagehot

"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation." 

–– Walter Bagehot (1826-1877), British journalist, essayist, political analyst, and economist  

via: Sketchbook 11, 2010, p. 35

Quotes: Ernest Hemingway

"I learned never to empty the well, but always to stop when there was still something in the deep part of the well and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it." 

–– Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American writer and journalist

Creativity quotes: James Waddell Alexander

"There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage." 

– James Waddell Alexander (1804-1859), American Presbyterian minister and professor