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“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.”

Knows Giving Art Ideas Form Creativity Air Mystery Inspired Patterns Encounters New Ideas

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Life is fragmentary, and the pattern that creativity can offer is not one that is imposed, not something rigid, but rather something which can reveal the intrinsic patterns of that fragmentation. Things are in a perpetual dance, but there is an order. It's not really random at all.”

Life Is Order Creativity Offers Patterns Perpetual Fragmentation

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new.”

Ideas Moments Creativity Concepts Patterns Insight Recognition Perceive Something New Interconnection

Author:Jason Silva

“Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes”

Attention Brain Creativity Greater Findings Solutions Built Innovation Patterns Attributes Mechanism

Book:Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

Source: Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done

“A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.”

Thinking Love Life Persons Ideas Truth Creativity Innovation Patterns Phrases Repeats Consistent Thinker Originality Conform Groove

Book:Sayings of J. Krishnamurti

Source: Sayings of J. Krishnamurti

“And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71”

Believe Might Creativity Possibility Patterns Scales Familiar Closing

Book:Chronicles

Source: Chronicles

“And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are locked into a pattern of thinking and responding, your creativity gets blocked. You miss the freshness and magic of the moment. Learn to be innocent again, and that freshness never fades.”

Ifs Thinking Children Moments Simple Views Creativity Magic Missing Patterns Committed Point Of View Innocent Innocence Fades Locked Responding Judgmental Freshness Blocked Never Fade

Author:Michael Jackson

“Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.”

People Reality Might Artist Powerful Creativity Greater Missing Design Connections Patterns Details Access Distracted Very Powerful Blur

Book:Decoded (Enhanced Edition)

Source: Decoded (Enhanced Edition)

“There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.”