Top 100 New Idea Quotes
#1. The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#2. If I give you a penny, then you're a penny richer and I'm a penny poorer, but if I give you an idea, then you will have a new idea but I'll have it too.
Eric Schmidt
#3. We each took a fierce delight in introducing the other to some new idea or development, the next amazing artist or record album, always hustling to out-avant the other's garde.
Tom Robbins
#4. But it was not a new idea. We call out; we are answered. It has been that way from the beginning of belief, and it continues to this very moment.
Mitch Albom
#5. We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.
Marc Lamont Hill
#6. Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.
Herbert Hoover
#7. I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
Dolly Parton
#8. If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it too.
Albert Einstein
#9. It takes repetitive exposure over time to a new idea before that idea becomes a natural part of your way of thinking and being.
Jack Canfield
#10. I am introducing a new idea. Try to care less. Practice ambivalence. Learn to let go of wanting it.
Amy Poehler
#11. To understand a new idea, break an old habit.
Jean Toomer
#12. I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary people arguing and talking again. I want to trigger new circuits in their nervous systems. That's the philosopher's job and I am the most important philosopher at this time.
Timothy Leary
#13. Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.
Fred Hoyle
#14. Nothing is original. It says it right there in the Bible. Ecclesiastes:
That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun.
Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of previous ideas.
Austin Kleon
#15. At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea - which needs empty space in my head - is barely formed yet.
Rose Tremain
#16. The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
Ray Bradbury
#17. The ideas, the things I was saying about science and ghosts, and even that idea this afternoon about caring and technology - they are not my own. I haven't really had a new idea in years.
Robert M. Pirsig
#18. Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.
Austin Kleon
#19. But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
Steve Jobs
#20. Ideas nearly always seem brilliant when they're hatched, so we never act on a new idea for at least twenty-four hours.
Steven D. Levitt
#21. What we usually find is that when people think they have a new idea or approach something for the first time, it is actually a recurrence of a line of thinking explored in the past.
Robert Hass
#22. One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot
#23. We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually did was no less extraordinary: we channeled the idea.
Chris Prentiss
#24. An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
Marge Piercy
#25. 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
#26. A mind stretched by a new idea
never shrinks back to its original proportions.
~
Oliver Wendell Holmes
#27. All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the temerity to seek admittance. Their contribution to science is accordingly very small.
Peter Medawar
#28. The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Peter Medawar
#29. For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#30. 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. - VICTOR HUGO
Eric Greitens
#31. The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.
Rollo May
#32. A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.
Ramez Naam
#33. Zines are not a new idea. They have been around under different names (ChapBooks, Pamphlets, Flyers). People with independent ideas have been getting their word out since there were printing presses.
Mark Todd
#34. 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.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#35. A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.
Joss Whedon
#36. I think audiences deserve the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to be surprised by them rather then just assume they'll react negatively to any new idea.
David O. Russell
#37. When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.
Ernest Holmes
#38. His new idea was published that month in what became yet another seminal Einstein paper, "Cosmological Considerations in the General Theory of Relativity."9 On the surface, it did indeed seem to be based on a crazy notion: space has no borders because gravity bends it back on itself. Einstein
Walter Isaacson
#39. Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.
Laurence Olivier
#40. Whatever machine you use, however sophisticated your technology , it's ideas that count. In the beginning was the idea. No machine will give you the ability to spot an opening, take a new idea, and see it through to profitable fruition.
Tom Crabtree
#41. Its a marathon, its not a sprint. Ten years. Fifteen years. You've got to get up everyday, with a new idea, a new spin, and you've got to bring it to work, every day
Jack Welch
#43. When the first people started to argue against slavery, for example, this was a new idea. If you crowd-source, you'd never come up with this. And so the - exactly the kind of progress we've made couldn't be made if we depend it on crowd-sourcing.
Rebecca Goldstein
#44. When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no difference if this idea is that the world is round or that women should vote or that the workers should control industry.
Mary Heaton Vorse
#45. Think beyond the pain. Think beyond the difficulty. Commit to having one good idea every day. What new idea will you claim today?
Mary Morrissey
#46. 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.
Stephen King
#47. When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.
Joel A. Barker
#48. There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.
Peter Noone
#49. It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.
Wilfred Trotter
#50. The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.
Max Planck
#51. If you want something new, then come up with a new idea and take action.
Debasish Mridha
#52. There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.
Stephen Hawking
#53. When you really do find a new idea or you're in and it's all working, that's the gift. It's like a musician when they hit a riff, that's when you're like all right, it's mellow. You back off and just ride it.
Robin Williams
#54. Every advancement in human history, every scientific discovery, every artistic masterpiece, every new idea has come from an individual looking at the world in a new way. Thinking outside the box. So tell me, Samantha, why are you trying so hard to put yourself inside the box?
Kate Scott
#55. We should have at least one new idea in the job training part of the platform. Otherwise, why don't we just take the 1964 platform and adopt it?
Tim Wirth
#56. Sometimes a gentle perambulation causes a new idea to rise to the surface of one's thoughts.
Sophie Hannah
#57. If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
Gary McCord
#58. The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.
Bertrand Russell
#59. How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?
Robert A. Heinlein
#60. Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.
Robert Breault
#61. I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.
Boris Yeltsin
#62. I was content to dwell on the new idea that had come to me that all things and states were just varieties of light, and that in every form, light was the emanation and manifestation of God.
Judith Merkle Riley
#63. I know what I'm going to write for the next three years. It's frustrating, because if I get a good new idea, I have to put it aside.
Bruce Coville
#64. To be contemporary is to rise through the stack of the past, like the fire through the mountain. Only a heat so deeply and intelligently born can carry a new idea into the air.
Mary Oliver
#65. The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
Ed Royce
#66. IF YOU WANT TO transfer a few hundred gigabytes of data, it's generally faster to FedEx a hard drive than to send the files over the Internet. This isn't a new idea - it's often dubbed "SneakerNet" - and it's even how Google transfers large amounts of data internally.
Randall Munroe
#67. 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
#68. Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea.
Virginia Postrel
#69. When you're a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.
Theophilus London
#70. The enthusiasm you have for a new idea is not an accurate indicator of its true worth.
Jason Fried
#71. Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.
Nick Denton
#72. It turns out it takes 30 years for a new idea to seep into the culture. Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.
Paul Saffo
#73. The fact is that one new idea leads to another, that to a third and so on through a course of time, until someone, with whom no one of these ideas was original, combines all together, and produces what is justly called a new invention.
Thomas Jefferson
#74. 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.
Jerry Spinelli
#75. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.
Joyce Cary
#76. Cath didn't feel like a mistake to him. She felt like a beginning. A clean canvas, ready to be painted. A gorgeous new idea.
Ruthie Knox
#77. A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea.
Quincy Jones
#78. At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
Michael Bergdahl
#79. If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.
Roger Von Oech
#80. Innovation- any new idea-by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.
Warren G. Bennis
#81. Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
Diana Vreeland
#82. The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.
Aubrey Menen
#83. If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.
Prince Philip
#84. The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.
Ronald Ross
#85. The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#86. The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences ... The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.
D.H. Lawrence
#87. The relevant measures are not ease and difficulty. The relevant measures are readiness and unreadiness. If the time isn't right for a new idea, no power on earth can make it catch on, but if the time is right, it will sweep the world like wildfire.
Daniel Quinn
#88. We're being sold a brand new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is something you deeply felt. You didn't have to wear it on your lapel or show it in your window or on a bumper sticker. That kind of patriotism does not appeal to me at all.
Sam Shepard
#89. That is for me decide, not you. It is said that only fools stand in the way of a new idea; I trust, magisters, that there are no fools among you.
Sarah Prineas
#90. This call for a new culture is not a new idea.
John Hutton
#91. The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#92. I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on a project, I'd probably abandon the first project and go with the new idea.
Neal Stephenson
#93. Welcome the back talk, because it's completely natural and normal. It's actually a sign that the new idea you've planted in your mind is taking root.
Gay Hendricks
#94. Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
George Orwell
#95. then after a few miles you arrived at a new idea, that wealth and morality are in essence the same thing, for the more money a person had, then the more goodness - or potential for goodness - a person possessed.
Zadie Smith
#96. The worth of a new idea is invariably determined, not by the degree of its intuitiveness-which incidentally, is to a major extent a matter of experience and habit-but by the scope and accuracy of the individual laws to the discovery of which it eventually leads.
Max Planck
#97. I write out of enthusiasm. Momentum that comes from a new idea. Eagerness to explore. I also write out of fear - fear of losing an idea - fear of feeling stagnant.
Nick Antosca
#98. We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.
Bert McCracken
#99. I reckon I can count on 30 more writing years, averaging a book a year (I can't keep up the 2-2.5 a year I used to do these days). And these days I've gotten round to wondering, for each new idea, "do I want to be remembered for this?" before I get to the point of spending a year on it.
Charles Stross
#100. Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Holms
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