Quotes about New Idea

This call for a new culture is not a new idea. Votes: 2

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. Votes: 2

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man. Votes: 2

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession. Votes: 2

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. Votes: 2

Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea. Votes: 2

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered. Votes: 2

It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers. Votes: 2

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. Votes: 2

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. Votes: 2

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Happiness is a new idea in Europe. Votes: 0

Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Votes: 0

Every really new idea looks crazy at first. Votes: 0

To understand a new idea, break an old habit. Votes: 0

Every new idea is impossibility until it is born. Votes: 0

The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea. Votes: 0

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years. Votes: 0

Why are we rebuilding New Orleans? Whose idea was this, Aquaman? Votes: 0

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it. Votes: 0

The people in New York have no idea what they're doing. Votes: 0

A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results. Votes: 0

it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones. Votes: 0

I savour the idea of my new state: single and a millionaire. Votes: 0

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle! Votes: 0

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South Votes: 0

What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty. Votes: 0

The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance. Votes: 0

New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South. Votes: 0

Ozzy Osbourne and Motley Crue in New Orleans on Mardi Gras = bad idea! Votes: 0

A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody. Votes: 0

We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea. Votes: 0

An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements. Votes: 0

Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea. Votes: 0

The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size Votes: 0

Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea. Votes: 0

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth. Votes: 0

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. Votes: 0

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. Votes: 0

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea. Votes: 0

The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes. Votes: 0

Look beyond the paint. Let us try to open our minds to a new idea. Votes: 0

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave. Votes: 0

When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God. Votes: 0

New York was an idea, I thought, an idea held simultaneously by thirteen million people. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes. Votes: 0

To create a new universal idea is to create a new star in the universe! Votes: 0

The best time to set up a new discipline is when the idea is strong. Votes: 0

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. Votes: 0

Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea. Votes: 0

Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas. Votes: 0

A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete. Votes: 0

It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one. Votes: 0

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur Votes: 0

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. Votes: 0

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea. Votes: 0

I'm starting a new chapter in my [[life], and you have no idea how much that means. Votes: 0

The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment Votes: 0

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one. Votes: 0

I've always loved New York City and the idea of a cultural exchange: the immigrants coming to America. Votes: 0

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter. Votes: 0

An idea like equality between men and women, which is now accepted in the West, is quite new. Votes: 0

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races. Votes: 0

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time. Votes: 0

God gave me the talent and I endeavor to give it back to Him with each new idea. Votes: 0

To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York. Votes: 0

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. Votes: 0

Don't see yourself as a product of your parents DNA, but rather as a brand new idea from heaven. Votes: 0

No idea is original, there's nothing new under the sun, it's never what you do, but how it's done Votes: 0

How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions? Votes: 0

My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out. Votes: 0

The World requires at least ten years to understand a new idea, however important or simple it may be. Votes: 0

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program. Votes: 0

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry. Votes: 0

Whatever the flows of our modern times are the idea is that you can create something new out of nothing. Votes: 0

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born. Votes: 0

Copying isn't particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else's idea to produce something new and different IS creative work. Votes: 0

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. Votes: 0

Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it. Votes: 0

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. Votes: 0

Sitting in my favorite coffeehouse with a new notebook and a hot cup of java is my idea of Heaven. Votes: 0

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out. Votes: 0

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. Votes: 0

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows. Votes: 0

When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen. Votes: 0

There's something so scary about trying out new material and being completely comfortable jumping into the abyss with a comedic idea. Votes: 0

I'm always game for creating a new character, and I liked the idea of putting something new into the 'Halo' universe. Votes: 0

To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word. Votes: 0

Once a new idea springs into existence, it cannot be unthought. There is a sense of immortality in a new idea. Votes: 0

The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it. Votes: 0

Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang. Votes: 0

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy. Votes: 0

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy. Votes: 0

The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution. Votes: 0

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one. Votes: 0

It sounds creepy, but I always liked the idea of disappearing then becoming something new. That of course was before I disappeared. Votes: 0

I'm more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to explore new places and cultures. Votes: 0

A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment. Votes: 0

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. Votes: 0

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience. Votes: 0

A person's age can be determined by the degree of pain he experiences when he comes in contact with a new idea. Votes: 0

The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things, and this will be: the idea of unity. Votes: 0

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. Votes: 0

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced Billy Elliot is very, very exciting. Votes: 0

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say. Votes: 0

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. Votes: 0

When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value. Votes: 0

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure. Votes: 0

The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research. Votes: 0

Think beyond the pain. Think beyond the difficulty. Commit to having one good idea every day. What new idea will you claim today? Votes: 0

I'm suggesting that principles meant to deal with uncertainty that occurs naturally can be useful to manage the uncertainty that characterizes any new idea. Votes: 0

TNC was once limited by the resources it could directly marshal to buy land. But teaching people a new idea is incredibly more scalable. Votes: 0

Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one Votes: 0

Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea. Votes: 0

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal. Votes: 0

A classic is a classic for a reason. Let's try to create new classics. The idea of repeating ourselves drives me a little crazy. Votes: 0

It's not a good idea to always look for new frontiers, especially when you have opportunities in your existing businesses, in your own backyard. Votes: 0

If you watch lizards and lions copulating, then you will see that in 200 million years the male has not had a single new idea. Votes: 0

I had a new idea on the way to this meeting this morning, but that doesn't mean we should put it in the platform. Votes: 0

It's part of my nature. I get excited when trying out new stuff, whether it be an idea or equipment. It stimulates my juices. Votes: 0

For me, getting married doesn't mean we should limit ourselves to some pre-defined idea. Rather, it's an opportunity to explore new things in life. Votes: 0

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision. Votes: 0

You just want to have new experiences and work with new people, so the idea of working with someone outside of your discipline is exciting. Votes: 0

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing. Votes: 0

A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention. Votes: 0

I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come. Votes: 0

Don't judge people you don't know. You have no idea what they've been through, and you may waste an opportunity to make a new friend. Votes: 0

I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time. Votes: 0

Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd. Votes: 0

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script. Votes: 0

If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. Votes: 0

The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.[As quoted in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011] Votes: 0

All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out. Votes: 0

Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love the idea of being part of a campaign that captures the spirit of New York and the stories of women here, passionate about their dreams. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

Companies buy customers when they cannot win new business on their own. They merge when their executives do not have a better idea of what to do. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped. Votes: 0

I kind of had an idea that New York would be like Fashion Week, where everyone always looks incredibly chic and cool, and I wouldn't fit in. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A 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. Votes: 0

Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows? Votes: 0

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see? Votes: 0

It's sad to have to leave your family but I like the idea of someone believing in something so strongly that are willing to find a new family. Votes: 0

To project your idea, you have to use new technology. It's not like the '70s or the '80s; you have an image that you project globally. Votes: 0

I grew up always wanting to be a dancer and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways. Votes: 0

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend. Votes: 0

A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My mom gets these new iPhones and stuff and she's like "Leo, can you figure it out?" because she had no idea. So yeah, I'm pretty good with gadgets. Votes: 0

Beware when any idea is promoted primarily because it is "bold, exciting, innovative, and new." There are many ideas that are "bold, exciting, innovative and new," but also foolish. Votes: 0

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood. Votes: 0

Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one. Votes: 0

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years. Votes: 0

I'm very obsessed with the energy of New York and the idea of the way people behave in the city versus the way they behave in a natural environment. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. Votes: 0

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications. Votes: 0

The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes. Votes: 0

In order to achieve a true understanding of string theory, some new idea will be required, and most likely, some break with the concepts on which we've traditionally based physical theory. Votes: 0

...this new idea of cure instead of punishment, so humane in seeming, had in fact deprived the criminal of all rights and by taking away the name Punishment made the thing infinite. Votes: 0

If someone came up with a new idea for a pantomime that worked, then that would be great but we shouldn't step away from Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin or Mother Goose. Votes: 0

For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography. Votes: 0

Here's what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a tremendous outcry from inside. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0