Quotes About Newness

The renewal of the new person6 does not designate gradual renewal of the character, but that the new humanity, already existing in Christ, is progressively actualized in the Christian church.

It is not the "disturbance" of the normal course of events; it is the manifestation of something utterly new. Eternal life has appeared in the midst of mortality.13

Wie ich höre, zeigt auch der Himmel eine Leidenschaft für das Neue. Ein Stern wird müde, ein Stern zu sein, und er explodiert und wird eine Nova.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being admired more by those who do not know so much about us.

When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.

I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.

It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.

He'd only just met her, he told himself, as though the newness and novelty was the explanation for his unusual feelings. Or perhaps he was simply overreacting to her rare innocence and highly sensual nature. That combination didn't come into his life every day. There. A sensible explanation for his sharp-set craving. A logical reason for not being able to walk away. With time though, he'd have his fill. He always did.

The fact that man is capable of action means that the unexpected can be expected of him, that he is able to perform what is infinitely improbable. And this again is possible only because each man is unique, so that with each birth something uniquely new comes into the world. (Human Condition, p. 178) For de Beauvoir, this newness

Everything is brand-new, I will be the first and only tribute to use this Launch Room.

Treat each class as if it were your first.

I am always scared when I start something new. That hasn't changed.

I jump at every opportunity I get to do something new but only if I feel that I can justify it.

Confidence is the key. When you're playing something new, find the part you know very well and play it really strong. That'll make you believe that you really do know it.

Going through life is always scary doing something new, at the same time it is very exciting.

I think for a lot of people, when you're starting something new, everyone is so excited about it.

Having a blank slate is sometimes as daunting as it is exciting.

I might walk vast expansesof earth and always be beginningand I love beginningor could learnto love it.

From a heart of stone, to a heart of flesh, love makes new what sin makes old

Leave this wreck and ruin here where it hath happened! Meddle no more with it! Begin all new!

Yet each time the new scythes are bejeweled, I still rejoice, because it allows me, if only for a few glorious moments, to believe that we will all choose to live forever.

The child sees everything in a state of newness; he is always drunk. Nothing more resembles what we call inspiration than the delight with which a small child absorbs form and colour. Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will - a childhood now equipped for self-expression with manhood's capacities and a power of analysis which enables it to order the mass of raw material which it has involuntarily accumulated.