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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Book, Ideas, Work Out

  "'Shiver' author Maggie Stiefvater ready to see her werewolves on the big screen" by Sabrina Weiss, www.mtv.com. October 23, 2009.

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• If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

  Manmohan Singh

  Cutting, Ideas, World

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• The most important political task facing the out-of-power party - the Democrats for now - is creating a villain to run against. It's certainly easier than developing some grand new ideas or policies on which to campaign.

  Pat Sajak

  Running, Party, Ideas

  "Searching for the Next GOP Villain". www.jewishworldreview.com. April 18, 2005.

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• In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.

  George Weah

  Book, America, Ideas

  "Africa's World Cup can make education a reality for all" by George Weah, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2010.

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• There are really only three important things to remember in life: To care, to share, and to be fair. This is not a new idea at all, and yet, observing how most people live their lives, you might think it was.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Thinking

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• It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Science, Men, Other Worlds

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• New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of it in the end!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Running, Tired, Ideas

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• If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.

  Gary McCord

  Fall, Law, Ideas

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• I've never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.

  Jello Biafra

  Art, Inspiration, Ideas

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• Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us. Sometimes after a meeting I want to arrange another one because new ideas are born and I discover new needs. This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.

  Pope Francis

  Moving, Circles, Ideas

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• Curious patients are more receptive to new ideas, and those who engage their health practitioners in a dialogue are much more likely to adhere to these recommendations.

  Dean Ornish

  Ideas, Patient, Curious

  "Sharecare Builds A Web 3.0 Bridge To Better Health" by Dean Ornish, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• If you want to look your best, be creative, try some new ideas, and have fun doing it.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Fun, Ideas, Creative

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• Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

  Jane Smiley

  Naps, Ideas, Together

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• Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Shoes, Ideas

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• The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Ideas, Niche, Hardest

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• God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Cutting, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4099, Delphi Classics

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• A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.

  Marge Piercy

  Ideas, Perfection, Grace

  Marge Piercy (1982). “Parti-colored Blocks for a Quilt”, p.92, University of Michigan Press

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• The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.

  Tom Peters

  Ideas, People, World

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way to Greatness”, p.78, Vintage

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• Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

  Brian Tracy

  Ideas, Quality, Quantity

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• The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you're able to let life meet life. If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Ideas, Able, Slow Down

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• A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

  Joyce Cary

  Art, Ideas, World

  Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph

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