Embracing New Ideas Quotes

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

The time for change is now.

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

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.

Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the stubborn attitude of having to have things be a particular way, grasping on to our beliefs and thoughts, all these cause the problems. To put it simply, using your belief system this way creates a situation in which you choose to be blind instead of being able to see, to be deaf instead of being able to hear, to be dead rather than alive, asleep rather than awake.

Nobody wants to change.

I respect traditions, you can't walk all over them, but at the same time our world is changing. Life is about moving on.

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.

An acting teacher once told me, 'Greet everything with yes... Even if you abandon one idea for another one, saying yes allows you to move forward.'

Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth

You need your employees to embrace change.

If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better.

I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

Its about continuing to learn and being open-minded, don't ever think you know it all.

When you take action, particularly bold action, the boundaries of what you believe to be possible (your belief system) expand. Which, in turn, gives you the capacity to consider new ideas, new possibilities, and new concepts that you previously thought to be impossible.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

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

Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

If you remain conventional and don't change, you'll get along. You'll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out there. You'll never be able to keep a marriage together, you'll never be able to keep anything together, because the whole goddamn thing isn't together.

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.