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• All new ideas pass through three stages: first they are dismissed as nonsense, then they are rejected as being against religion and finally they are acknowledged as the truth, with the proviso from the initial opponents that they knew it all along.

  Karl Ernst von Baer

  Ideas, Three, Opponents

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• ...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that makes progress possible, lies in unification. For where unification has been able to establish unity of ideas it has usually ended in uniformity, paralysing the growth of new ideas. And where the unification has merely brought about an artificial or imposed unity, its irksomeness has led through discord to disruption.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Real, Lying, Ideas

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.76, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, can't terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.

  John Dewey

  Success, Perseverance, Humility

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• Creativity in life is about saying yes to new ideas.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Creativity, Ideas, Saying Yes

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• Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Creativity, Organization, Ideas

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”

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• Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Ideas, Seven Days, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.

  George Lucas

  Photography, Stars, War

  "George Lucas on 'Star Wars,' 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' and his own legacy". Interview with Steve Silverman, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

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• Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Long Ago, Years, Ideas

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Ideas, Dmt

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• Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

  George Orwell

  Men, Ideas, Brain

  George Orwell (1969). “Coming Up for Air”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote.”   TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO

  Daniel H. Pink

  Running, Business, Ideas

  Daniel H. Pink (2010). “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, p.90, Canongate Books

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• If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Running, Ideas, Want

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• When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education

  James McCosh

  Mother, Ideas, Christianity

  James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics”, p.340

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• Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd really like to go out with her.' But you can't. At least not until the old idea is finished.

  Stephen King

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

  Robert Redford

  Ideas, Voice, Vision

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• When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves

  Cesare Pavese

  Echoes, Ideas, Pages

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.146, Routledge

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• Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.

  John Lydon

  Inspiration, Ideas, Poison

  "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

  William James

  Inspirational, Change, Dream

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• In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Business, Ideas, Labs

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Education, Fear, Lying

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.7, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I try to see each new season as a new challenge because I have a new team to work with, new opponents to encounter, and often new ideas and theories to try

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Volleyball, Team, Ideas

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• As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular arrangement will produce a new and desired effect. ... Therefore, the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as the exhibition of his thoughts; in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea to the world.

  Robert Fulton

  Nice, Science, Discovery

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• Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an out of control concussion match with opponents catapulting croutons and petits pois across the mahogany, don't fight it, go with it. And when you have the desire to quell the uprising approach the original perpetrator from behind. There, slowly crown her with the contents of the fresh fruit salad bowl. But be warned. Although this immobilizes and rivits everyone's attention it also gives them new ideas.

  J. P. Donleavy

  Couple, Party, Fighting

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• Whatever machine you use, however sophisticated your technology , it's ideas that count. In the beginning was the idea. No machine will give you the ability to spot an opening, take a new idea, and see it through to profitable fruition.

  Tom Crabtree

  Writing, Technology, Ideas

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• The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals depended on constant applause and admiration to sustain them. There is a shortage of applause in the world, and there is not enough respect to go around.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Ideas, Foundation, World

  Theodore Zeldin (2012). “An Intimate History Of Humanity”, p.16, Random House

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