Changed Quote by Frank Herbert

I feel that there is nothing that can happen to a person that is banal. Everything that happens to us is interesting.

— George Saunders

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent…

— John B. S. Haldane

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

— William James

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

— Barack Obama

Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues…

— Gerhard Richter

Ordinary people can bring about change.

— Oprah Winfrey

A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it

— Marcel Proust

As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

— Julia Cameron

Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as…

— Claude Bernard

People must get respect for their new ideas.

— John Kao

Here is an entirely banal idea that I think has the potential to change the world: Take evidence seriously. Taking evidence seriously does not…

— Abhijit Banerjee

The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with…

— Tom Peters