“You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.” Quote by Robert Sternberg
“When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.” LooksYoungStuffImaginationGoneStartingPotStewYoung Writers Author:Neil Gaiman
“But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you.” PeopleThinkingYearsFirstsSchoolThreeCasesTeacherStupidLowsExpectationsTestsThree YearsYou Re StupidLow ExpectationsI Was Stupid Author:Robert Sternberg
“The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the dinosaurs, which create new opportunities, and all sorts of new forms spring up... So, quite often, the reasons for creativity depend on accidents or disasters that prevent the normal habits being carried out.” KnowsReasonEarthFormOpportunityCreativityDependsHabitNormalSpringAccidentsDisasterExtinctionDinosaursNew OpportunitySpeciation Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.” KindCertainBeliefBearsUncertaintyScepticism Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.” ChaosDeterminedPredictableChaotic Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.” KnowsGivingArtIdeasFormCreativityAirMysteryInspiredPatternsEncountersNew Ideas Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there's a kind of cumulative quality.” KindMeanFactsFormGrowsProcessMemoriesQualityEvolutionProliferationCumulative Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.” CultureFieldsHabitActivitySpeechHabitual Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and some works of art are more successful than others. Some languish in obscurity and are never heard of again, while others form the foundation of a whole school of art.” GivingArtIdeasWholeSchoolFormSuccessfulHeardExpressionFoundationWorks Of ArtSelectObscurityLanguish Author:Rupert Sheldrake
“When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.” PeopleIfsFirstsKindLongArtEnoughFormUsedCultureFieldsFirst TimeAppreciationMake SenseModernism Author:Rupert Sheldrake