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• It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and
  requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Community, Individuality

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.434, Princeton University Press

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• British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Self, Ideas

  "Are the British really the worst-dressed tourists?" by Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2007.

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• Today's world needs change, alteration, renewal, and corrections of errors. It needs new ideas, new approaches, methods, plans, procedures, and new ways of doing things. Maybe you should think of going-literally or symbolically- to a circus today, where you'll see stunts you never dreamed possible. The novelty and originality there may stimulate what you need more of in this life. Have the daring to take a flight for the idea you believe in!

  Wilferd Peterson

  Believe, Thinking, Errors

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• It turns out it takes 30 years for a new idea to seep into the culture. Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.

  Paul Saffo

  Technology, Opportunity, Years

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• Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Spring, Ideas, Flow

  Address to the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression awards banquet, The Globe and Mail, November 27, 2004.

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• New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them

  Simon Sinek

  Flower, Ideas, Matter

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Mar 12, 2016

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• Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

  Gerd Gigerenzer

  Ideas, Welcome, Surprise

  Gerd Gigerenzer (2002). “Adaptive Thinking: Rationality in the Real World”, p.46, Oxford University Press

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• I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination, and make improvements and operate the device in my mind. When I have gone so far as to embody everything in my invention, every possible improvement I can think of, and when I see no fault anywhere, I put into concrete form the final product of my brain.

  Nikola Tesla

  Thinking, Ideas, Imagination

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• To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

  Jean Toomer

  Inspirational, Ideas, Old Habits

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Punishment, Ideas, Numbers

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1999). “Crime and Punishment”, p.364, Modern Library

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• The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

  Napoleon Hill

  Ideas, Mind, Withered

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.86, Penguin

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• Those who say they dislike dogma, or 'certainty', tend to be liars, hypocrites, or simply wrong. What they really dislike is the dogma of those they disagree with. A society that was certain, certain beyond all certainty, that putting its citizens in death camps was wrong, would never put people in death camps. Such things are only possible when you're open to new ideas.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Liars, Knowledge, Hypocrite

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• You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food.

  Stephen Starr

  Italian, Ideas, People

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• I think it's better to have ideas. You can change an idea. Changing a belief is trickier. Life should malleable and progressive; working from idea to idea permits that. Beliefs anchor you to certain points and limit growth; new ideas can't generate. Life becomes stagnant.

  Kevin Smith

  Thinking, Anchors, Ideas

  "Fictional character: Rufus". "Dogma", www.independent.co.uk. 1999.

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• I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. [...] If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual", each of them is a "multitude".

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Years, Ideas, People

  "The Creative Personality". www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• For all its faults, it is partisanship - based on core principles- that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.

  Tom DeLay

  Party, Ideas, Leader

  Farewell Address to House of Representatives, delivered 8 June 2006

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• The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Organization, Ideas, People

  "Where do new ideas come from?" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. January 1, 1996.

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• I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on a project, I'd probably abandon the first project and go with the new idea.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Ideas, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Change, Pain, Fear

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• Searching for new ideas is an endless process.

  R. K. Laxman

  Ideas, Process, Endless

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• A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas.

  Arie de Geus

  Ideas, People, Together

  "Arie de Geus: The Thought Leader Interview". Interview with S+B, www.strategy-business.com. April 1, 2001.

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• Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Truth, Science, Ideas

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• New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate.

  Joan Robinson

  Ideas, Gaps, Repetition

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• The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn, and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal, outside of the law.

  Emma Goldman

  Law, Ideas, Growth

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

  Roger von Oech

  Errors, Ideas, Use

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