Thursday, July 22, 2010

Meetings: The Killers of Ideas

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The best way to kill an idea is to take it to a meeting. – anonymous




The harebrained idea may well start discussion that will lead to the perfect improvement.



New ideas rarely germinate with someone who is scared of being wrong. – anonymouse



There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. – Irving Berlin



Every new idea is obscure at first. It is or it wouldn’t be new. – Robert Irwin



Serious minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious. – Paul Valery



Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. – Alfred North Whitehead


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