Quotes of: Old-ideas Keyword

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

Edwin Land

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

Andy Rooney

New ideas leave the old ones shaking in their shoes, don't they?

I'll Be Seeing You

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Paulo Coelho

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

Penn Jillette

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies.

Judy Greer

I was eight years old and scared, and had no idea what was going on

Sarah Todd Hammer

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 always need new ideas to free us from the old ones.

Marty Rubin

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old, that will give you some idea of how old he is.

Ron Fairly

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

The Collector

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

Edward Norton

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

Natalie Imbruglia

The very first idea I ever had about making a film... my first thought about ever being a filmmaker was when I was sixteen years old and I wanted to make a Viking movie. And I wanted to make it in old Norse, which I was studying at the time. It's odd...

Mel Gibson

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

How We Decide

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

John Cage

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

Benjamin Britten

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs ...

Theodore White