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“The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.”

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“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.”

Should Ideas Different Hands Challenges Views Heard Ready Battle Tests Thirds Aim Agree Point Of View Criticize Comment New Ideas Second Hand

Book:Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books

Source: Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books

“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.”

Thinking Writing Children Book Ideas Stories Difficult Imagination Doors Adults Window Excited New Ideas Children Book

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“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.”

Source: The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective

“And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens singing somewhere within the cracked voice of him who is first to reveal a new idea. The greatest seducer was not Alcibiades, afterall, it was Socrates.”

Firsts Ideas Certain Voice Teacher Students Masters Singing Relation Intimate New Ideas Nevertheless Elusive Cracked Sirens Teacher And Student

Book:Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm.”

Trying Art Ideas Dream Draws Resources Wings Checks Enthusiasm Judgement New Ideas Our Dreams Ardor

Book:The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

Source: The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

“Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.”

People Thinking Trying Ideas Innovation Thought Provoking New Ideas Troublemaker

Book:Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

“You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.”

Feels Ideas Age Pain Fear Growth Change Judging Amount Aging Contact New Ideas Starting Anew

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That's when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow.”

Ifs Ideas Whole Moments Grows Chance Brain Audience Laughing Fronts Messages Positivity Defense That Moment Slips New Ideas Zen Like

Author:George Carlin

“If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.”

Ifs Want Ideas Running Today New Ideas Trash

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.”

“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.”

Mind Ideas Romance Unusual New Ideas Intoxicated Full Life

Book:Men Without Women

Source: Men Without Women

“...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.”

Ideas New Ideas

Book:How We Decide

Source: How We Decide

“When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind's workings. Instead of thinking that I was a failure, could I perhaps accept that I am only a human being--and a normal one, at that?”

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“It is a gift when someone can challenge you and open your mind to new ideas.”

Mind Ideas Challenges New Ideas

Book:My Steve

Source: My Steve

“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.”

World Ideas Can Do Consciousness Crisis Species Absence Our World Good Ideas New Ideas Explorers Mind Blowing Psychedelic Experience Dmt

Author:Terence McKenna

“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.”

Men Ideas Dies Loses Brain New Ideas

Book:Coming Up for Air

Source: Coming Up for Air

“It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas.”

Important Ideas Individual Produce Individuality Memorable New Ideas Continuous Improvement

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote.” TOM KELLEY General Manager, IDEO”

Source: Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

“People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.”

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Book:Crime and Punishment

Source: Crime and Punishment

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

“And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and and playing guitar at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.”

Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“We want to be open-minded enough to accept radial new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out.”

Want Ideas Enough Fall Brain Accepting New Ideas Open Minded

Author:Michael Shermer

“Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us.”

Way Heart Book Ideas Challenges Hurt Seeing Dangerous Prejudice Blind Circles Spots New Ways New Ideas Right Way Blind Spots Barricades

Author:Libba Bray

“If we want to set out on the aruous search for the truth, we must all summon up the courage to leave the lines along which we have thought until now and as the first step begin to doubt everything that we previously accepted as correct and true. Can we still afford to close our eyes and stop up our ears because new ideas are supposed to be heretical and absurd?”

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Book:Chariots of the Gods?: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past

Source: Chariots of the Gods?: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past

“Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd really like to go out with her.' But you can't. At least not until the old idea is finished.”

Thinking Men Kind Ideas Married Finished New Ideas Getting Married Old Ideas

Author:Stephen King

“Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual before turning on the computer. The excitement of improvisation lies not only in the risk of being involved but in the new ideas, as heady as the adrenaline of performance, that seems to come from nowhere.”

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Author:Mary Catherine Bateson

“I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.”

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Author:Orson Scott Card

“You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.”

Men Mind Ideas Done Stories Light Enemy Clear Fame Shining Clouds Deeds Every Man Bother New Ideas Thunder Serene Disdain Gnats

Book:Things Seen (Choses Vues)

Source: Things Seen (Choses Vues)

“Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.”

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Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“[On School Uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German.”

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Author:George Carlin

“When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves”

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Book:This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950

Source: This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950

“Fear of the unknown... They are afraid of new ideas... They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on... "If something is new, I reject it immediately because it's frightening to me." What they do instead is just stay with the familiar. You know, to me, the most beautiful things in all the universe, are the most mysterious.”

Ifs Knows Ideas Reality Beautiful Universe Prejudice Familiar Mysterious Rejects Frightening New Ideas Beautiful Things Loaded Fear Of The Unknown

Author:Wayne Dyer

“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.”

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Book:A Home at the End of the World: A Novel

Source: A Home at the End of the World: A Novel

“The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.”

Men Feels Ideas Pain Science Fear Change Security New Ideas Status Quo Morbid Scientific Truth Challenging Status Quo Questioning Beliefs

Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.”

Knows Inspirational Firsts Ideas Dream Change Vision Ridiculous New Ideas

Author:William James

“In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.”

Ideas Bigs Business Dangerous Industry Firm Department New Ideas Invited Viruses Labs

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.”

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Author:James Stockdale

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.”

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Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.”

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Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.”

Source: Theory and History

“The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.”

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Author:William Beveridge

“If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you.”

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science.”

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Author:Wilfred Trotter

“If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.”

Ifs Has Beens Ideas Science Watches Scientist Arguing Honestly New Ideas Science And Religion Science Religion Scientific Truth Questioning Beliefs

Author:Wilfred Trotter

“If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) But every now and then, a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you are too much in the habit of being skeptical about everything, you are going to miss or resent it, and either way you will be standing in the way of understanding and progress.”

“We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.”

Two Ideas Seems Interest Views Journey Travel Divides New Ideas Delightful

Book:Life and letters

Source: Life and letters

“A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words into action.”

Years Ideas Action Powerful Business Responsibility Company Merit Kicks New Ideas Converting

Book:Marketing for business growth

Source: Marketing for business growth

“The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.”

Way Mind Humans Ideas Body Nature Change Strange Treats Rejects Human Mind Openness New Ideas New Beginnings Protein

Author:Peter Medawar

“In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.”

People Ideas Shows Vision Week Months Tasks British New Ideas

Author:Gordon Brown

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