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Ever wonder where ideas come from? I do. I
know they come through the right brain, but where does the right brain get them? I opened
a book called Brainstorms and Thunderbolts. Here's what I found:
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Socrates said that all good poets "are inspired and possessed."
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Harriet Beecher Stowe got the idea for Uncle Tom's Cabin reading in the
newspapers how
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Goethe's poems came suddenly upon him and insisted upon
being composed immediately.
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Mozart, as it sometimes sounds, composed while "walking after a good
meal." And as it also sounds, when he couldn't sleep. Where the ideas came from, he
had no idea. But said that he could never force them to come.
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Poe was inspired "by a species of fine frenzy--an ecstatic intuition."
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To Amy Lowell, the best description of the creative process is the familiar,
"it came to me."
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Dostoyevsky was driven, it seems, by a dark
muse.
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Walter Lantz was on his honeymoon trying to silence a bothersome woodpecker,
when... Well, you know the rest.
But the explanation I like best comes from another source. Jagdish Parikh, head
of a printing company in India and an international management expert, says:
All knowledge is already present, and the most we can do is create conditions in
which intuition will occur. It's like rain pouring down from the
heavens--to have more of it, we need only to remove our umbrellas.
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