New Idea Quotes

154 New Idea quotes by 127 unique authors

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, Jr.
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… — Steve Jobs
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.… — Jennifer Lopez
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… — George Lucas
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
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. — Mark Twain
A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody. — Joss Whedon
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Every really new idea looks crazy at first. — Alfred North Whitehead
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens singing… — Marguerite Yourcenar
But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment.… — George Carlin
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… — Jerry Spinelli
When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with… — Elizabeth Gilbert
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our… — Terence McKenna
Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. — George Orwell
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… — Stephen King
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… — Victor Hugo
[On School Uniforms] Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's… — George Carlin
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,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows. — William James
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. — Percy Williams Bridgman
The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps… — Wilfred Trotter
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… — Wilfred Trotter

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