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• Some people never change their mind through their whole lives, about anything, despite new information that comes in. And now that we know that homosexuality is not a choice, it's biological, I think we have to love and understand them.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Thinking, People, Choices

  "Dick Van Dyke talks to one of our grandmas about his new book on aging, Keep Moving". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2015.

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• Larousse is an invaluable tool for any cook. I've used this great resource all throughout my cooking career, and of course I look forward to the new edition. New information and knowledge are always welcome.

  Thomas Keller

  Careers, Cooking, Tools

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• There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the new information economy is driven by the economics of networks.

  Carl Shapiro

  Differences, Collaboration, Old And New

  Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian (2013). “Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy”, p.173, Harvard Business Press

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• When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Information, Opinion, Weak

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.144, Random House

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• No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Life, Time

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• My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

  Nathan Fillion

  Cutting, Brain, Information

  "Nathan Fillion Talks About Wonder Woman". Interview with Tony Guerrero, comicvine.gamespot.com. January 28, 2009.

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• Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

  Samuel Barnett

  Queens, Moving, Order

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• But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.

  Ann Patchett

  Letting Go, Gathering, Information

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• I don't think I underestimated [Vladimir Putin], but I think that I underestimated the degree to which, in this new information age, it is possible for misinformation for cyber hacking and so forth to have an impact on our open societies, our open systems, to insinuate themselves into our democratic practices in ways that I think are accelerating.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Practice, Impact

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.

  Andy Stanley

  Team, Leader, Weakness

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.23, Multnomah

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• Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Information, Uncomfortable, Feels

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• The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Communication, Technology

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.275, Routledge

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• While the cast of characters stays the same, I always try to add in new information so readers get to know the people they care about better with each story.

  Jane Cleland

  Character, People, Trying

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• The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Real, Party, Mean

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• When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude. Information that is consistent with our pre-existing beliefs is often accepted at face value, whereas evidence that contradicts them is critically scrutinized and discounted. Our beliefs may thus be less responsive than they should to the implications of new information

  Thomas Gilovich

  People, Mind, May

  Thomas Gilovich (2008). “How We Know What Isn't So”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• We have discovered with our new information systems that we can make all the appropriate checks and ensure public safety is not dented in any way in a much shorter time frame.

  Robert Carson

  Gun, Safety, Information

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• To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over... What you first gain from them is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you 'line up' your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instil, and modify to some slight degree their mass.

  William James

  Educational, Ideas, Views

  "Writings, 1902-1910".

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• People cannot be expected to learn one expertise and just apply it routinely in a job. Your expertise is in steadily renewing your knowledge base and extending it to new areas. That lifelong cycle of learning really is the foundation of the new information organization and economy.

  George Gilder

  Jobs, Organization, People

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• If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Long, Looks

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.22, Westminster John Knox Press

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• A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.

  Alain de Botton

  Travel, Information, Useless

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• A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Giving

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.9, New World Library

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• Abundance, like everything else in the universe, is simply a specific arrangement of energy and information. With our intention, we can change the energy, add new information, and manifest whatever we want, need, or desire. Abundance is unlimited, unbounded, and always available.

  Deepak Chopra

  Desire, Energy, Add

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• Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization that sometimes overwhelms our institutions. These institutions were designed for rural societies operation at a tiny fraction of today's speed and with a citizenry vastly less capable that today's. It's unclear how they will change to adapt to the new reality, but change they must.

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Technology, Opportunity, Reality

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• Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Atheism, Information, Wells

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• Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Information, Bigger

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.147, Penguin

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