New Ideas Quotes - Page 6

• There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There's no single answer - not even a single starting point. Even the 'teachers' ... don't offer us the answer. They do offer us approaches, ways of thinking, possibilities we can adapt, and hope that might generate in us wholly new ideas.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Teacher, Simple, Thinking

  Frances Moore Lappé, Paul Martin Du Bois (1994). “The quickening of America: rebuilding our nation, remaking our lives”, Jossey-Bass

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• You grow old when you lose interest in life, when you cease to dream, to hunger after new truths, and to search for new worlds to conquer. When your mind is open to new ideas, new interests, and when you raise the curtain and let in the sunshine and inspiration of new truths of life and the universe, you will be young and vital.

  Joseph Murphy

  Dream, Inspiration, Sunshine

  Joseph Murphy (2011). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within”, p.184, Penguin

  197 Copy quote

  Show source

• In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking yields new ideas. And ideas produce the bloom...of an answer. Keep your head and heart clear. Perspective can just as easily be lost as it can be found.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Heart, Thinking

  Andy Andrews (2009). “The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective”, p.154, Thomas Nelson Inc

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Passion, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Ideas, Judgement, Invention

  4 Copy quote

• We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Views, Hands, Ideas

  J. Oswald Sanders (2017). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.106, Moody Publishers

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Book, Writing

  7 Copy quote

• New ideas often need old buildings.

  Jane Jacobs

  Ideas, Old Buildings, Needs

  10 Copy quote

• I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.

  Edward Burtynsky

  Kids, Ideas, Competition

  4 Copy quote

• Creativity isn't about wild talent as much as it's about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't. It's a pure numbers game.

  Robert I. Sutton

  Creativity, Games, Ideas

  7 Copy quote

• When we want to infuse new ideas,
  to modify or better the habits and customs of a people,
  to breathe new vigor into its national traits,
  we must use the children as our vehicle; for little can be accomplished with adults.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Ideas, People

  19 Copy quote
• 

  One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Things In Life, Ideas

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.305, W. W. Norton & Company

  64 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older people need their whole energy to keep up with what’s already been set in motion.

  Michael Cunningham

  Thinking, Ideas, Differences

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “A Home at the End of the World: A Novel”, p.269, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Ideas, Different, Hiv

  7 Copy quote

• Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Ideas, Ruins, Debris

  "Anselm Kiefer’s Remembrance of Things Past" by Kisa Lala, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2010.

  62 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Robert Redford

  Ideas, Voice, Vision

  4 Copy quote

• When you take action, particularly bold action, the boundaries of what you believe to be possible (your belief system) expand. Which, in turn, gives you the capacity to consider new ideas, new possibilities, and new concepts that you previously thought to be impossible.

  Robert Ringer

  Believe, Ideas, Giving

  25 Copy quote

• If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.

  Sharon Olds

  Ideas, Would Be, Lines

  Interview with Dwight Garner for Salon Magazine, www.english.illinois.edu. July 1, 1996.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have this problem in the rebirthing community because it's so powerful sometimes, I get thrown out because people want to do things a certain way and they are just not open to new ideas, so they don't want me to come around.

  Leonard Orr

  Powerful, Ideas, People

  4 Copy quote

• The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.

  Edward Bernays

  Ideas, Today, Facts

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

  88 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias, and it presents a major impediment of our ability to break free from the misinterpretation of randomness.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Ideas, Matter, Way

  Leonard Mlodinow (2009). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.164, Penguin UK

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.

  Jim Rohn

  Ideas, Way, Scales

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 13, 2016

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.

  Jeff Bezos

  Thinking, Ideas, Views

  "Some advice from Jeff Bezos" by Jason Fried, signalvnoise.com. October 19, 2012.

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.

  Ryan Phillippe

  Ideas, People, Want

  6 Copy quote