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This call for a new culture is not a new idea. -- John Hutton
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. -- Mark Twain
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man. -- Thomas More
Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession. -- Fredrik Bajer
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. -- Walter Bagehot
Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea. -- Virginia Postrel
If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered. -- Roger von Oech
It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers. -- Hanoi Hannah
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. -- Pearl S. Buck
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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
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
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
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
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
Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world. -- Jonah Lehrer
In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage and that young people should be free to choose their marriage partners independently. -- Jardine Libaire
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
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
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
Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic. -- Martin Fleischmann
Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a hearing for your new idea, but after that, it's going to tank if you don't have the evidence and support for it. -- Michael Shermer
Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter in Florida, and in 2008, NASA beamed a Beatles song to the North Star (Polaris), on the assumption that any putative Polarians would appreciate the Fab Four's 1960s-genre compositions. -- Seth Shostak
I love a long bath. I love anything creative. I love decorating. I even love just flipping through magazines and vegging out for a while. But I'm also one of those people who loves to work, so I'll sing, dance, work on my next performance, or write whomever it may be about a new idea. -- Jennifer Lopez
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
I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the outline is a living, breathing thing as well. I also re-outline when I'm two-thirds done, to be sure that there is an emotional payoff from all the plot lines and to be sure the story is as tight as it can be. -- Jeff Abbott
Happiness is a new idea in Europe. -- Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. -- Bob Dylan
Every really new idea looks crazy at first. -- Alfred North Whitehead
To understand a new idea, break an old habit. -- Jean Toomer
Every new idea is impossibility until it is born. -- Ron Brown
The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years. -- Barry Diller
Why are we rebuilding New Orleans? Whose idea was this, Aquaman? -- Carlos Mencia
One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The people in New York have no idea what they're doing. -- Larry Bowa
A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results. -- Nikola Tesla
it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones. -- Warren Buffett
I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire. -- Paulo Coelho
I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle! -- Woody Allen
New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South -- Josh Lucas
What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance. -- Bertrand Russell
New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South. -- Josh Lucas
Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea! -- Nikki Sixx
A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody. -- Joss Whedon
We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea. -- Marc Lamont Hill
An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements. -- James Webb Young
Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea. -- E. E. Evans-Pritchard
The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size -- Albert Einstein
Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea. -- Laurence Olivier
The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth. -- George Orwell
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. -- Percy Williams Bridgman
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea. -- Ian Hacking
The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes. -- Bernard Beckett
Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea. -- Julia Roberts
Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave. -- Stephen Gardiner
When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God. -- Ernest Holmes
New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people. -- Nancy Pickard
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes. -- Elias Canetti
To create a new universal idea is to create a new star in the universe! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong. -- Jim Rohn
Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. -- Robert Breault
Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea. -- Jim Jarmusch
Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas. -- Austin Kleon
A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete. -- Frank Gehry
It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one. -- Alex Faickney Osborn
There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur -- Bill Drayton
The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea. -- Edwin Land
I'm starting a new chapter in my [[life], and you have no idea how much that means. -- Christopher Reeve
The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment -- John Sculley
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. -- Elbert Hubbard
I've always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America. -- Mimi Kennedy
Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter. -- Andy Rooney
An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new. -- Antonio Munoz Molina
When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time. -- Amanda Palmer
God gave me the talent and I endeavor to give it back to Him with each new idea. -- Dino Kartsonakis
To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York. -- Gwen Cooper
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. -- Peter Medawar
Don't see yourself as a product of your parents DNA, but rather as a brand new idea from heaven. -- Max Lucado
No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done -- Nas
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions? -- Robert A. Heinlein
My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out. -- Bill Condon
The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be. -- Ronald Ross
Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program. -- Margaret Sanger
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry. -- Michael Helm
Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing. -- Pascal Bruckner
Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born. -- Diana Vreeland
Copying isn't particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else's idea to produce something new and different IS creative work. -- Shia LaBeouf
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. -- Jacqueline Leo
Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it. -- Lewis M. Branscomb
There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. -- Stephen Hawking
Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven. -- Libba Bray
The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. -- George Orwell
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows. -- William James
When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen. -- Margaret Chan
There's something so scary about trying out new material and being completely comfortable jumping into the abyss with a comedic idea. -- Judd Apatow
I'm always game for creating a new character, and I liked the idea of putting something new into the 'Halo' universe. -- Mike Colter
To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word. -- Richard P. Feynman
Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea. -- Edward de Bono
The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it. -- Trinny Woodall
Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang. -- Philip K. Dick
I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy. -- Paul A. Volcker
I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy. -- Paul A. Volcker
The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution. -- Reza Aslan
It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one. -- Ellis Paul Torrance
It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared. -- Elizabeth Hand
I'm more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to explore new places and cultures. -- Candice Accola
A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. -- Joyce Cary
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. -- Victor Hugo
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. -- Albert Einstein
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
The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity. -- Ferdinand Hodler
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting. -- Eric Fellner
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

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