New Ideas Quotes

• Without new ideas success can become stale

  Anthony Bourdain

  Ideas, Stale

  4 Copy quote
• 

  The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Inspirational, Change, Lying

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

  155 Copy quote

  Show source

• Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

  Edward de Bono

  Optimistic, Thinking, Errors

  33 Copy quote

• Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Ideas, Innovation

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new ideas . . . Possibilities do not add up. They multiply.

  Paul Romer

  Ideas, Add, Generations

  20 Copy quote

• New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Ideas, World

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.158

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.

  Richard Koch

  Circles, Ideas, Social

  Richard Koch, Greg Lockwood (2010). “Superconnect: Harnessing the Power of Networks and the Strength of Weak Links”, p.28, W. W. Norton & Company

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is a gift when someone can challenge you and open your mind to new ideas.

  Terri Irwin

  Ideas, Challenges, Mind

  Terri Irwin (2012). “My Steve”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

  Clayton Christensen

  Ideas, People, Mets

  7 Copy quote

• Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

  Holly Near

  Music, Song, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.

  Nate Silver

  Ideas, Marketing, Details

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.76, Penguin

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  7 Copy quote

• The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.

  Ronald Ross

  Simple, Years, Ideas

  Sir Ronald Ross (1910). “The Prevention of Malaria”

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  1897 Following the Equator, ch.32.

  66 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

  John Cage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Conversing with Cage". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1988.

  101 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

  Anne Sweeney

  Jobs, Ideas, People

  10 Copy quote

• It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

  Roger von Oech

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Creativity

  Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  263 Copy quote

• Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Motivation, Life And Love, Creativity

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.98, David R. Godine Publisher

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

  William Beveridge

  Peace, Science, Ideas

  11 Copy quote

• I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas.

  Colson Whitehead

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Permission from the government is an expensive commodity. New ideas rarely have this kind of support. Old ideas often have deep legislative connections to defend them against the new.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Government, Ideas, Support

  Lawrence Lessig (2002). “The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World”, p.76, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.

  Rirkrit Tiravanija

  Ideas, Might, Too Much

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up -- to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Art, Creativity, Ideas

  11 Copy quote