New Information Quotes

• All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Thinking, Leader, Information

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• As an actor, I think every moment in your life is giving you a new set of tools. You’re constantly absorbing new information that you can put back onto the screen.

  Charlie Day

  Thinking, Giving, Tools

  Interview with Guillermo Del Toro, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2014.

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• Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information rapidly and, for the most part, accurately.

  Burton Malkiel

  Believe, Successful, Views

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• The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that base of information as things develop. You do whatever the probabilities indicated based on the knowledge that you have at that time, but you are always willing to modify your behaviour or your approach as you get new information. In bridge, you behave in a way that gets the best from your partner. And in business, you behave in the way that gets the best from your managers and your employees.

  Warren Buffett

  Bridges, Behaviour, Information

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• We have to recognize that there is a strong, fresh wind blowing, powered by these new information technologies. It will be increasingly difficult for dictators to impose their will through sheer brutality.

  John F. Kerry

  Strong, Technology, Wind Blowing

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• People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

  Nate Silver

  Light, People, Information

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• If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Communication, Information, Quantum

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.231, Harvard University Press

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• New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies. They've done so in three ways: by dramatically boosting the access of individuals and special interests to politically potent information, by making it easier for such people to coordinate their activities and exert political power, and by greatly increasing the pace of events within our political systems.

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Technology, Phones, People

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• Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat hooks so that later on, when you come upon a new piece of information, you have a hook to hang it on. Without a hook, the new information falls on the floor.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Memories, Fall, Coats

  Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.21, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.

  Alain de Botton

  Sleep, Mind, Information

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as a compendium of new information leading from primal superstition to final exactitude. We know that the sun is hub of our little corner of the universe, and that ties of genealogy connect all living things on our planet, because these theories assemble and explain so much otherwise disparate and unrelated information not because Galileo trained his telescope on the moons of Jupiter or because Darwin took a ride on a Galápagos tortoise.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Moon, Views, Ties

  "Eight Little Piggies". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "A Foot Soldier for Evolution", p. 441, 1993.

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• The organization of information actually creates new information.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Organization, Information

  Keynote from Day 2 of the 2010 IA Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, boxesandarrows.com. 2010.

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• Each day that we live, we're taking in new information, ideas, concepts, experiences, and sensations. We need to consciously stand guard at the doors of our minds to make sure that whatever we're allowing to enter will cause our lives to be enriched, that the experiences we pursue will add to our stockpile of possibility.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Ideas, Doors

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• You will be favourable to Burr, and so must fail because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth, Washington the greatest man that ever lived, Burr the wickedest, and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader's attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Love You, Mean

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• Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of its environment signifies no more and no less than that new information about this environment has got into that organic system. Adaptation is essentially a cognitive process.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Opportunity, Mutation, Information

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• When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mind, Information

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• Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the story that we've been telling ourselves is that humans are just another animal. We evolved from other animals and our place in the universe isn't particularly special. What I'm trying to convey in my book [The Sixth Extinction] is that we are unusual.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Smart, Book, Animal

  "Pulitzer Winner Elizabeth Kolbert on Mass Extinctions - and Our Own Eventual One". Interview with Benjy Hansen-Bundy, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2014.

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• The Christian church has a long history of gradually absorbing scientific perspectives and new discoveries. It seems to me that, in fact, that has been one of the strengths of Christianity - it has ultimately had great flexibility in absorbing new information about the world that we get from science.

  George Coyne

  Christian, Discovery, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately.

  Trevor Noah

  Mother, Thinking, Answers

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure, the project didn't work. But hey, you know what? That was five years ago, and now computers are faster, or some new information has come along, the world is different. So we're able to reboot the project.

  Edward Boyden

  Ideas, Years, Information

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and open to new information - and objectivism - which thinks, "No, we know it all, we've got it, so real thinking and learning can come to an end."

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Real, Thinking, Objectivity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I didn't even know how to talk to people, I didn't know how to talk to the press. I was just a jester. And I still feel that way. But, I mean, what haven't I learned? Everything that I know is new information because I was starting with nothing.

  Diablo Cody

  Mean, People, Information

  "Diablo Cody Talks YOUNG ADULT, the EVIL DEAD Remake, SWEET VALLEY HIGH, Her Directorial Debut, and a Lot More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 16, 2011.

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• New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

  Zig Ziglar

  Ideas, Information, Fresh Ideas

  Zig Ziglar (2012). “Inspiration from the Top”, p.6, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.

  Warren Buffett

  Information, Conclusion, Humans

  "How the web distorts reality and impairs our judgement skills" by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2014.

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• There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn't cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.

  Charlie Munger

  Reality, People, Want

  Charlie Munger's opening speech at the 2004 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. May 5, 2004.

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