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    “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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    “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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    “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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    “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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    Jen Fraser
    “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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    Jen Fraser
    “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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    “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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    “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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    Jen Fraser
    “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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    “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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    “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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    Jen Fraser
    “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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    “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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    “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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    “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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    Jen Fraser
    “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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    “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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    “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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