Old Ideas Quotes

• There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

  Mark Twain

  Ideas, Kaleidoscope, New Ideas

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.9071, Delphi Classics

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• It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

  Edwin Land

  Business, Ideas, Entrepreneur

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  The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Inspirational, Change, Lying

  "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes (Preface), 1936.

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Art

  "Conversations with Maya Angelou". Book by Jeffrey M. Elliot, 1989.

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• I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

  John Cage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Conversing with Cage". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1988.

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• If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old

  Peter Drucker

  Inspiring, Business, Creativity

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• The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen.

  Carl Ally

  Creativity, Bad Ass, Ideas

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• Don't be afraid of new ideas. Be afraid of old ideas. They keep you where you are and stop you from growing and moving forward. Concentrate on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

  Tony Robbins

  Moving, Ideas, Growing

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• Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Reality, Ideas, Stuck

  "Remembering Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015): 'We Have to Change Ourselves in Order to Change the World'". www.democracynow.org. October 06, 2015.

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• We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas.

  William Feather

  Men, Ideas, Energy

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• The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person or we become a bigger person. If it's a real life change you cannot come out the same. So therefore, you're either going to come out smaller or you're going to rise up and ultimately come out of it a bigger person.

  Michael Meade

  Block, Real, Life Changing

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• Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.

  Neil Abercrombie

  Land, Ideas, Common

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• Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.

  Denis MacShane

  Men, Europe, Ideas

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• The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Party, Men, Ideas

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• It is necessary to shed old ideas, habits, opinions and even companions sometimes.

  Marlo Morgan

  Ideas, Opinion, Sometimes

  Marlo Morgan (1991). “Mutant message down under”, Bookpeople

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• No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Origin Of Life, Ideas, People

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• I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just began with the setting; a juvenile correctional facility located in the Texas desert. Then I slowly make up the story, and rewrite it several times, and each time I rewrite it, I get new ideas, and change the old ideas around.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Thinking, Texas

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• Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

  Kevin McCloud

  Air, Order, Ideas

  Kevin McCloud (2010). “Kevin McCloud’s 43 Principles of Home: Enjoying Life in the 21st Century”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones.

  Peter Deunov

  Ideas, Giving, Mind

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• Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.

  Eleanor Brown

  Self, Ideas, Support

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• We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

  Charles Dickens

  Reflection, Ideas, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (1861). “All the Year Round”, p.436

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• Sometimes I find bringing in my old ideas is just detrimental.

  Bear McCreary

  Ideas, Sometimes, Detrimental

  Source: collider.com

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• This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment when we have the ability to step out of the story altogether. Renaissances are historical instances of widespread recontextualisation. People in a variety of different arts, philosophies and sciences have the ability to reframe their reality. Renaissance literally means 'rebirth'. It is the rebirth of old ideas in a new context.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

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• The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Clever, Struggle

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