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• It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with which they fit into his general conceptions, into the picture of the world which he regards as modern or advanced.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Philosophy, Ideas, Judging

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• Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Discovery, Blood, Ideas

  Henrik Ibsen (1907). “Rosmersholm: A Drama”

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• The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

  Edward de Bono

  Ideas, Needs, Bars

  Edward De Bono (1982). “Lateral thinking for management: a handbook”

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• Transparency is all about letting in and embracing new ideas, new technology and new approaches. No individual, entity or agency, no matter how smart, how old, or how experienced, can afford to stop learning.

  Gina McCarthy

  Smart, Technology, Agency

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• India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides.

  Narendra Modi

  Ideas, Empowerment, Sides

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• Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

  Edward de Bono

  Believe, School, Data

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently wait for, but cannot artificially produce. It is unquestionable, however, that education, legal enactments, and general social conditions have a stupendous influence on the development of the originative faculty present in a nation and determine whether it shall be a fountain of new ideas or become simply a purchaser from others of ready-made inventions.

  John Ambrose Fleming

  Education, Science, Ideas

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• The spirit that America has, the American industry creativity it has where anything is possible. Three idealistic Australians bringing in new ideas and being able to make the damn comic books that they've always dreamed about, it's kind of a cool thing.

  Sam Worthington

  Book, Creativity, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• To most ... of us, Russia was as mysterious and remote as the other side of the moon and not much more productive when it came to really new ideas or inventions. A common joke of the time [mid 1940s] said that the Russians could not surreptitiously introduce nuclear bombs in suitcases into the United States because they had not yet been able to perfect a suitcase.

  Herbert York

  Science, Moon, Russia

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• There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.

  Peter Noone

  Song, Sunset, Hands

  "Proud Hermit: The British Invasion’s Peter Noone". Interview with Al Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. May 22, 2011.

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• Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Break Through, Ideas, Two

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• My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.

  Miranda July

  Jobs, Ideas, Risk

  "Miranda July Exclusive Interview THE FUTURE". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 4, 2011.

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• TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly more scalable.

  Ramez Naam

  Teaching, Land, Ideas

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.

  Ian Rankin

  Thinking, Ideas, Way

  "Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead". www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.

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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.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Art, Creativity, Air

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• It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Ideas, Diversity, People

  "The moral roots of liberals and conservatives". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2008.

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• Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Kids, Writing

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• I like how someone once said being a Christian is not about having new ideas but having new eyes. This is the ability to have our hearts broken with the things that break the heart of God. That is part of what it means to be a Christian.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Mean, Eye

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• People used to trust their doctor. They went to an expert. Now people have new ideas and are thinking for themselves. That's a very important change in our collective psychology.

  James Hillman

  Thinking, Doctors, Ideas

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot them a mile away. Rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another "me too" blog post.

  Steve Rubel

  Funny, Thoughtful, Names

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• Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Creativity, Rocks, Flames

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• People who hold on to grudges, insist on being right, and try to change other’s minds have a difficult time maintaining healthy, happy relationships. Surrendered people easily forgive. They are open to new ideas, and aren’t attached to being “right.” As a result, people love working and collaborating with them. Others seek them out as mediators and advisors. They are more laid back and relaxed than their rigid counterparts, which makes them highly valued by others. They are passionate and emotional.

  Judith Orloff

  Emotional, Ideas, People

  "7 Habits Of Surrendered People". omtimes.com. April 6, 2014.

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• The worth of a new idea is invariably determined, not by the degree of its intuitiveness-which incidentally, is to a major extent a matter of experience and habit-but by the scope and accuracy of the individual laws to the discovery of which it eventually leads.

  Max Planck

  Science, Discovery, Law

  Max Planck (2014). “Scientific Autobiography: and Other Papers”, p.59, Open Road Media

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• The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

  Aubrey Menen

  Mistake, Humorous, Thinking

  Aubrey Menen (2010). “Classic Aubrey Menen: Complete and Unabridged”, p.691, Penguin UK

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• In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers.

  John Ralston Saul

  Creativity, Ideas, Interesting

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

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