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• Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.

  Roger von Oech

  Real, Lying, Keys

  Roger Von Oech (2001). “Whack on the Side of the Head”, Mjf Books

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• Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to confuse the thought with the expression of the thought. The cliche is immediately perceivable; the commonplace very often escapes notice if decked out in original dress. There are few examples, in any literature, of new ideas expressed in original form. The most critical mind must often be content with one or the other of these pleasures, only too happy when it is not deprived of both at once, which is not too rarely the case.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Often Is, Expression, Ideas

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• Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation - people who keep challenging convention and thinking up new ideas for the sheer hell of it or from an innate contrariness.

  David M. Raup

  Wisdom, Science, Thinking

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• The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.

  Edward de Bono

  Data, Ideas, Analysis

  Edward De Bono (1991). “I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic”, Penguin Group USA

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• Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mistake, Ideas, Nine

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• New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Fall, Ideas, Style

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• Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.

  Laurence Olivier

  Ideas, Alive

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• Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Independent, Ideas, Risk

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• I think there are two areas where new ideas are terribly dangerous: economics and sex. By and large, it's all been tried, and if it's really new, it's probably illegal or dangerous or unhealthy.

  Felix Rohatyn

  Love, Sex, Thinking

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• A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.

  Joss Whedon

  Ideas, Scientist, Great Scientist

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• If you're trying to live life, really live it, you should, in my opinion, try to expand all the aspects of your life. Open yourself to new ideas and new things even if you find you don't like them in the end - but at least knowing them has taken you that much further along into being a more experienced, more well-rounded person in this world.

  Josh Barnett

  Live Life, Taken, Ideas

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• Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it.

  Oren Arnold

  Men, Ideas, Dozen

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• The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Mistake

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• Every day, I read about new ideas and research that could help someone I care about live a longer and healthier life.

  Tom Rath

  Ideas, Research, Care

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• The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ideas, Together, New Inventions

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.100

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• In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected,
  later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Ideas, Firsts, Well Known

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• People must get respect for their new ideas.

  John Kao

  Ideas, People

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare.

  Peter Elbow

  Views, Practice, Ideas

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• It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a tremendous outcry from inside.

  Isak Dinesen

  Ideas, Doors, Modesty

  Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen (1987). “On Modern Marriage and Other Observations”

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• The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

  Max Planck

  Science, Men, Ideas

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.

  Robert Grudin

  Creativity, Ideas, Rejection

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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• If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Ideas, Long, Innovation

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• Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front.

  Tom Metzger

  Ideas, Healthy, Growing

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• Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.

  Isaac Watts

  Reflection, Years, Ideas

  Isaac Watts (1743). “The Improvement of the Mind”, p.17

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• I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

  Ratan Tata

  Ideas, People, Done

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