#new ideas

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#analyze #belief #believe #business #business school

The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#am #classic #clothes #different #different ways

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#even #express #genius #great #great number

With a host of proposals on the table and a President examining new ideas for health reform, we have an obligation to give real reform our best shot. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#examining #give #health #health reform #host

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date. ↗

— Roger von Oech

#come #easy #go #hard #ideas

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ↗

— John Cage

#i #ideas #new #new ideas #old

That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles. ↗

— Rachel True

#because #bringing #double-edged #even #get

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#aspect #certain #first #foolishness #ideas

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#biggest #ideas #need #new #new ideas

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along! ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#doing #done #good #good idea #i