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• A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words into action.

  Theodore Levitt

  Powerful, Business, Responsibility

  Theodore Levitt (1974). “Marketing for business growth”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

  Peter Medawar

  Change, Nature, New Beginnings

  "The Art of the Soluble". Book by Peter Medawar, 1967.

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• In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

  Gordon Brown

  Ideas, People, Vision

  "I will listen ... and learn". www.mirror.co.uk. May 12, 2007.

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• I am never one to disappoint. When I decided to invest I decided to bring the club forward. I am ready bring new ideas, vision and investment to the club.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Ideas, Vision, Clubs

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• Have you ever sat very quietly with closed eyes and watched the movement of your own thinking? Have you watched your mind working?or rather, has your mind watched itself in operation, just to see what your thoughts are, what your feelings are, how you look at the trees, at the flowers, at the birds, at people, how you respond to a suggestion or react to a new idea? Have you ever done this?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Flower, Eye

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wise, Strong, Book

  Saturday Review, p. 44, October 29, 1960.

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• The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

  Carl Ally

  Creativity, Bad Ass, Ideas

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• So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.

  Dorothea Brande

  Ideas, Long, Original Ideas

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.180, Lulu.com

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• Every new idea is impossibility until it is born.

  Ron Brown

  Ideas, Born, Impossibility

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• One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential point to other minds. Words may have to be strained into a new sense, and scientific controversies constantly resolve themselves into differences about the meaning of words. On the other hand, a happy nomenclature has sometimes been more powerful than rigorous logic in allowing a new train of thought to be quickly and generally accepted.

  Arthur Schuster

  Powerful, Lying, Science

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• A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. Otherwise the bureaucracy, politics, and people who can only see the fledgling and potential innovation through today's glasses will smother it or let it quietly die from malnourishment.

  Charles Bowers

  Change, Glasses, Ideas

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• The future is built on the flow of new ideas.

  Paul Meyer

  Ideas, Innovation, Flow

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• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

  Walter Bagehot

  Art, Pain, Philosophy

  'Physics and Politics' (1872) 'The Age of Discussion'

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• The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Engineering, Ideas

  "One-on-One with Bill Gates". Interview with Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com. February 16, 2005.

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• Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Ideas, Challenges

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.19, Beacon Press

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• A lot of singers think all they have to do is exercise their tonsils to get ahead. They refuse to look for new ideas and new outlets, so they fall by the wayside... I'm going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Fall, Exercise, Thinking

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• [N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a really good idea. I'm very fond of it. It's done you no harm. Please don't attack it." That's not the way it goes. The hard but just rule is that if the ideas don't work, you must throw them away. Don't waste any neurons on what doesn't work. Devote those neurons to new ideas that better explain the data. Valid criticism is doing you a favor.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Data, Ideas

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• We must take the abiding spiritual values which inhere in the deep experiences of religion in all ages and give them new expression in terms of the framework which our new knowledge gives us. Science forces religion to deal with new ideas in the theoretical realm and new forces in the practical realm.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Science

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• Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

  Sydney Brenner

  Science, Discovery, Order

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• The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.

  Tom Peters

  Ideas, Champion, Energy

  Tom Peters, Nancy Austin (1985). “A passion for excellence”

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• A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Creativity, Ideas

  Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon, May 3, 1949.

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• When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.

  Ernest Holmes

  Creativity, Thinking, Ideas

  Ernest Holmes, Raymond Charles Barker (2016). “365 Days of Richer Living: Daily Inspirations”, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

  George W. Crane

  Failure, Thinking, Ideas

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• At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.

  Carl Sagan

  Attitude, Heart, Science

  "The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark". Ch. 17 : The Marriage of Skepticism and Wonder. Book by Carl Sagan, 1995.

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• I think it is the general rule that the originator of a new idea is not the most suitable person to develop it, because his fears of something going wrong are really too strong... At age 69.

  Paul Dirac

  Strong, Thinking, Ideas

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