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It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas. -- Edwin Land
Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing. -- Elizabeth Warren
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things. -- James Harvey Robinson
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer. -- Jan Schakowsky
New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
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
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. -- George H. W. Bush
If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something. -- Rush Limbaugh
Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire point of allowing goods to be imported into the United States - because we want and need them and because someone here believes that the good or service received in exchange for our dollars creates value for them. -- Mike Pompeo
I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views. -- Elaine Pagels
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
New ideas must use old buildings -- Jane Jacobs
New ideas often need old buildings. -- Jane Jacobs
All the old fellows stole our best ideas. -- Frederic Goudy
I always fish out antique ideas, very old ideas. -- Sergio Leone
Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes I find bringing in my old ideas is just detrimental. -- Bear McCreary
Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe. -- Denis MacShane
Humans cannot find freedom until they let go of old obsolete ideas. -- Robert Kiyosaki
God will not pour fresh, creative ideas and blessing into old attitudes. -- Joel Osteen
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings. -- Jane Jacobs
New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is necessary to shed old ideas, habits, opinions and even companions sometimes. -- Marlo Morgan
Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time. -- Jonah Lehrer
In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits. -- Hannes Holm
We kept the old male ideas of success: power and money. We need new ones! -- Zosia Mamet
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones. -- John Maynard Keynes
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones. -- John Maynard Keynes
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage
All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them. -- Jean Anouilh
It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones. -- John Maynard Keynes
If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones. -- Peter Deunov
New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form. -- Carl Jung
I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories. -- Mary Pope Osborne
Don't get stuck in old ideas. Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. -- Grace Lee Boggs
Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them. -- Jean Anouilh
The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones. -- John Maynard Keynes
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen. -- Alan Watts
I don't want nothing old but some old money. Buy me some young ideas. That's what I'm gonna do with it. -- Moms Mabley
The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas. -- Tom Peters
I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever. -- Edward Norton
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility. -- Clarence Darrow
An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait. -- Tom Peters
We don't need men with new ideas as much as we need men who will put energy behind the old ideas. -- William Feather
For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities. -- Riane Eisler
Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts. -- William O. Douglas
Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past. -- Mark McKinnon
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
Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless. -- Luc de Clapiers
We must constantly encourage ourselves and each other to attempt the heretical actions that our dreams imply and so many of our old ideas disparage. -- Audre Lorde
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good. -- Charles Krauthammer
In order to make room for the new (whether it's new clothes or new thoughts and ideas), we must release the old and the outworn. -- Louise Hay
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference. -- John Dewey
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
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS. -- Alan Kay
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
Brothers and sisters: Now is not the time for thinking small, now is not the time for the same-old, same-old establishment politics and stale inside-the-Beltway ideas. -- Bernie Sanders
I am 42 years old and I have $9000, and I am out of ideas. I've nothing to spend it on. I'm bored shitless. I will die with that $9000. -- Doug Stanhope
By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.' -- Marilyn Ferguson
New ideas are difficult just because they are new. Repetition has somehow plastered over the gaps and inconsistencies in the old ones, and the new cannot penetrate. -- Joan Robinson
The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture. -- Donald Judd
The more I learn about the evolution of ideas, the more I have become aware that I am simply an unrepentant Old Whig-with the stress on the "old. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Critics of the Wall Street protesters claim that they have old ideas, nothing new, and they're never going to work. Wait a minute., that sounds like this show. -- David Letterman
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
Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint. -- Laura Riding
We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
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

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