These new ideas quotes will inspire you. New ideas, something that is new has been recently created, built, or invented or is in the process of being created, built, or invented.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging new ideas quotes, new ideas sayings, and new ideas proverbs.
Best New Ideas Quotes
- “There is no formula. We all must become spirited inventors. There’s no single answer – not even a single starting point. Even the ‘teachers’ … don’t offer us the answer. They do offer us approaches, ways of thinking, possibilities we can adapt, and hope that might generate in us wholly new ideas.” ~ Frances Moore Lappé
- “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.” ~ Andy Andrews , Thinking new ideas quotes
- “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.” ~ Michael Cunningham
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“The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be.” ~ Ronald Ross
- “To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.” ~ Richard Koch
- “The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.” ~ William Beveridge
- “Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
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“One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.” ~ Roger von Oech
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“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.” ~ John Cage
- “Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.” ~ Holly Near
- “A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.” ~ Mark Twain
- “The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.” ~ John Maynard Keynes
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“I’m naturally curious, and I’ve always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.” ~ Anne Sweeney
- “It is a gift when someone can challenge you and open your mind to new ideas.” ~ Terri Irwin
- “You’re trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.” ~ Chuck Klosterman
- “Almost always great new ideas don’t emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.” ~ Clayton Christensen
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“Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
- “New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.” ~ Edward de Bono
- “New ideas are sometimes found in the most granular details of a problem where few others bother to look.” ~ Nate Silver
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“Without new ideas success can become stale” ~ Anthony Bourdain
- “New ideas often need old buildings.” ~ Jane Jacobs
- “New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with ideological obsessions, to entertain new ideas or to improve new plans.” ~ Lewis Mumford
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“I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.” ~ Edward Burtynsky
- “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.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle
- “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.” ~ J. Oswald Sanders
- “In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that’s never been previously contemplated. But when we’re discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what’s new.” ~ Seth Godin
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“Creativity isn’t about wild talent as much as it’s about productivity. To find new ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don’t. It’s a pure numbers game.” ~ Robert I. Sutton
- “I’ve been taught not to have any regrets. If we were to add up all of the hours spent regretting mistakes and use that time to develop new ideas, who knows how many brilliant new businesses would be created.” ~ Richard Branson
- “If we have too much clarity, we might not be compelled to continue searching for new ideas.” ~ Rirkrit Tiravanija
- “A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.” ~ Nikola Tesla
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“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.” ~ Eugene Delacroix
- “When we connect to the infinite source of wisdom within, creative new ideas, opportunities, and healing spontaneously unfold.” ~ Deepak Chopra
- “New ideas are not born in a conforming environment.” ~ Roger von Oech
- “My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently.” ~ James Hillman , Creating new ideas quotes
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“New facts often trigger new ideas” ~ T.L. Osborn
- “Some stories we know well and some we learn as we go. Being able to shape and share these stories into new perspectives and new ideas is incredibly gratifying.” ~ Garth Kravits
- “Permission from the government is an expensive commodity. New ideas rarely have this kind of support. Old ideas often have deep legislative connections to defend them against the new.” ~ Lawrence Lessig
- “Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.” ~ Dorothy Draper
- “If you’re having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up — to know that there’s life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can’t find it anywhere else.” ~ Natalie Goldberg , Open to new ideas quotes
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“Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.” ~ Susanne Katherina Langer
- “To take in a new idea you must destroy the old, let go of old opinions, to observe and conceive new thoughts. To learn is but to change your opinion.” ~ B. J. Palmer
- “Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas.” ~ Dean Williams
- “I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.” ~ Ratan Tata
- “You grow old when you lose interest in life when you cease to dream, to hunger after new truths, and to search for new worlds to conquer. When your mind is open to new ideas, new interests, and when you raise the curtain and let in the sunshine and inspiration of new truths of life and the universe, you will be young and vital.” ~ Joseph Murphy
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“Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.” ~ Laurence Olivier
- “Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front.” ~ Tom Metzger
- “In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.” ~ Konrad Lorenz
- “New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody’s castle-roof perforated.” ~ Sarah Bernhardt
- “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
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“Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it.” ~ Oren Arnold
- “The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“Every day, I read about new ideas and research that could help someone I care about live a longer and healthier life.” ~ Tom Rath
- “Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insights without endangering the security of our prior assumptions. We cannot propose new ideas without risking disapproval and rejection.” ~ Robert Grudin
- “The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.” ~ Edward de Bono
- “Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.” ~ Chin-Ning Chu
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“People must get respect for their new ideas.” ~ John Kao
- “I think there are two areas where new ideas are terribly dangerous: economics and sex. By and large, it’s all been tried, and if it’s really new, it’s probably illegal or dangerous or unhealthy.” ~ Felix Rohatyn
- “A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.” ~ Joss Whedon
- “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” ~ John Maynard Keynes