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#1

“Originality is the source of all human progress.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: human-progress, originality, source

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#2

“Status quo thinking is the premature rejection of deeply unfamiliar ideas; it is the enemy of originality.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: enemy, ideas-quotes, originality-quotes, status-quo, thinking-quotes, unfamiliar

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“Conformity is the death of imagination — it is stagnation and a lack of human progress.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: conformity, human-progress, imagination, stagnation

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#4

“Deeply unfamiliar ideas are original ideas.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: ideas-quotes, originality-quotes, unfamiliar

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#5

“Creative ideation is about as close to having a real magic wand as we can get.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: creative, creativity-quotes, ideas, ideation, magic-wand

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#6

“Progress lies in the surprise.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: human-progress, surprise

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#7

“Disrespect ideas, not people.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: disrespect, ideas, people

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#8

“One original thinker can outsmart a dozen distinguished experts.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: expert-quotes, experts, original-thinker, originality-quotes, outsmart

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#9

“When more of us discover the magic of bold ideas, we all win.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: bold, bold-quotes, discover, ideas, ideas-quotes, magic, win, winning-quotes

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#10

“The more brazen or bold the idea; the more savage the reaction to it.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: bold-ideas, brazen, reaction, reactions-quote, savage

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#11

“Conformity is faith in the status quo.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: conform, conformity, status-quo, status-quo-or-the-system

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#12

“The enemy of opportunity is certainty.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: certainty, certainty-quotes, enemy, enemy-quotes, opportunity, opportunity-quotes

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#13

“Certainty kills ingenuity. The more certain we are, the less room we leave for discovering hidden opportunities.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: certainty, certainty-quotes, hidden-opportunities, ingenuity, ingenuity-quotes, opportunity-quotes

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#14

“Money grows on Idea Trees.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: idea, idea-quotes, money, money-quote, money-quotes-or-rich-quotes, money-quotes-or-wealth-quotes, tree-quotes, trees, trees-metaphorical, trees-quotes

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#15

“The single greatest threat to human progress isn’t a lack of original ideas; it’s our obsession with familiarity — with status quo thinking.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: familiarity, human-progress, obsession-quotes, original-thinking, originality-quotes, status-quo, thinking, thinking-quotes, threat

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#16

“Genius ideas are surprising ideas.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: genius, genius-quotes, idea-quotes, ideas, surprising

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#17

“You don’t win the Nobel Prize for following the rules. So be unique. Be a rule-breaker.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: breaking-the-rules, nobel-prize, rule-breaker, rule-breaking, unique

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#18

“Problems are the root of all Value.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: problem-quotes, problems, root, root-causes, value, value-quotes

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#19

“Without problems, life loses all meaning. That’s why problem-solving and originality are future-proof skills. They’re part of who we are as humans.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: future, humans, life, meaning, meaning-of-life-quotes, originality, originality-quotes, problem-solving, problems, skills

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#20

“Give someone a fish; they’re fed for a day.
Teach them to fish; they’re fed for life.
Show them how to seek & solve problems;
and the whole world is their oyster.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: fish, food, oyster, problem-solving, seek, seek-and-solve, solve, teach, teaching-quotes, world

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#21

“We reverse engineer genius ideas, by creating our own chain of linked thoughts, starting with an idea and working our way back to what we imagine the original problem might have been.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: chain, chain-of-thoughts, genius, ideas, imagine, linked, problem, reverse-engineer, reverse-engineering, thoughts

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#22

“When you ask an inventor for advice around finding you own genius ideas, their lack of insight into what the pieces of the puzzle are, and how they all fit together, means that they really can’t help you! Only you can help yourself, and the Outthinx Method is the ultimate DIY exercise for achieving this. The Method gives us the keys to unlock our own, unique genius. The Method makes locksmiths of us all.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: genius, ideas, insight, inventor, keys, locksmith, method, outthinx, puzzle, unlock

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#23

“Genius is the ability to connect the unconnected (the entirely unrelated), to form new ideas, which are never-before-seen combinations.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: ability, combinations, connect, genius, genius-quotes, ideas, new-ideas, unrelated

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#24

“Originality (also known as CQ or Creative Quotient) can in fact be improved upon, to help make us much smarter in other ways… Since originality can be developed and enhanced, this means that the teachings inside this book can actually help you become more intelligent, by boosting your CQ.
Put simply: CQ > IQ.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: cq, cq-iq, creative-quotient, creativity, intelligence, intelligence-quotient, iq, originality, originality-quotes

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#25

“Knowledge comes from imagination, observation, action, and experience; and science is a time-honoured method for turning guesses and hunches into verifiable facts; into shiny new pieces of knowledge.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: experience, facts, guesses, hunches, imagination, knowledge, method, observation, science, verifiable

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#26

“Traditions stifle imagination. They are the invisible destroyer of dreams.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: destroyer, dream-quotes, dreams, imagination, imagination-quotes, invisible, tradition, traditions

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#27

“Originality cracks saturation.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: originality, originality-quotes, saturation

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#28

“The Great Question: “Dear inventor, how’s it done — how can I come up with genius ideas all of my very own?”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: dear-inventor, genius, genius-ideas, great, ideas, ideas-quotes, inventions-quotes, inventor, question

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#29

“98% of us are full-time CopyCats — the rest are part-timers, picked on for being ‘slackers’.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: 98, copycats, full-time, part-time, percent, picked-on, slackers

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#30

“When we finally begin to see the entire modern world around us as a kind of living museum of ideas, we also begin to see the world as Einstein once did.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

tags: einstein, ideas, ideas-quotes, living, museum, museum-of-ideas, see-the-world, world

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