Effective Advices

• While solving a problem, concentrate and work vigorously on it. If stuck, leave it for now. Start working on some other problem. Hopefully the subconscious will succeed in finding a crucial connection or two in the already existing data on your brain and you will experience a eureka  moment. [Poincare]
• The best idea is to have lots of them. [Pauling]
• Never write out all the ideas before going to sleep. Save one or two, so that you have something handy to start with, tomorrow. [Hemingway]
• One moral of this story is that you should always collect more materials than you will use. Every article is strong in proportion to the surplus of details from which you can choose the few that will serve you best - if you don't go on gathering facts forever. At some point you must stop researching and start writing. [Zinsser]
• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People by Altucher