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Quotes About Newness

time. The old woman reaches the corner of the street, no more than a bundle of black clothes. All right then, it's new, she wasn't there a little while ago. But it's a tarnished deflowered newness, which can never surprise. She is going to turn the corner, she turns—during an eternity. I tear myself from the window
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
A foreign language can signify a total separation. It can represent, even today, the ferocity of our ignorance. To write in a new language, to penetrate its heart, no technology helps. You can't accelerate the process, you can't abbreviate it. The
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.
~ Rob Zombie
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
~ Karl Kraus
There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that impact.
~ Deborah Tannen
Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.
~ Isaac Watts
A fresh attitude starts to happen when we look to see that yesterday was yesterday, and now it is gone; today is today and now it is new. It is like that—every hour, every minute is changing. If we stop observing change, then we stop seeing everything as new. —DZIGAR KONGTRUL RINPOCHE
~ Pema Chodron
Why Won't We Be Bored in Heaven? Because we are with God, and God is infinite. We never come to the end of exploring Him. He is new every day. Because we are with God, and God is eternal. Time does not pass (a condition for boredom); it just is. All time is present in eternity, as all the events of the plot are present in an author's mind. There is no waiting. Because we are with God, and God is love. Even on earth, the only people who are never bored are lovers.
~ Peter Kreeft
A problem that seems unsolvable always looks different in the light of a new day.
~ Peter Lerangis
We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto
~ Peter Lerangis
Several years ago, Debashish Chatterjee, a good friend and well-known author on leadership1 opened a seminar on leadership at MIT by saying, 'I've been guided in my work by the notion that older is often better. If an idea has been around for a few thousand years, it's been submitted to many tests—which is a good indicator that it might have some real merit. We're fixated on newness, which often misleads us into elevating novelty over substance.
~ Peter M. Senge
Elegance and simplicity . . . plastic, including polyester resin, which has several attractions: permanence (indoors), an aura of difficulty and technical expertise, and preciousness . . . rivaling bronze or marble. . . . in short, the aroma of Los Angeles in the sixties — newness, postcard sunset color, and intimations oif aerospace profundity.
~ Peter Plagens
hence the very best science fiction ultimately winds up being a collaboration between author and reader, in which both create - and enjoy it; joy is the essential and final ingredient of science fiction, the joy of discovery of newness
~ Philip K Dick
New can be an emotion.
~ David Levithan
The waking world. Even the most cynical among us must greet it with a touch of hope. Maybe it's a chemical reaction, our thoughts communing with the sunrise and creating that brief, intense faith in newness.
~ David Levithan
The waking world. Even the most cynical among us must greet it with a touch of hope. Maybe it's a chemical reaction, our thoughts communing with sunrise and creating that brief, intense faith in newness.
~ David Levithan
Sometimes, when I find it hard to sleep, I'll think of when we first met, of the newness of each other's body, and my impatience to know everything about this person. Looking back, I should have taken it more slowly, measured him out over the course of fifty years rather than cramming him in so quickly.
~ David Sedaris
She loved you in the morning because the day was new.
~ Zadie Smith
I think anytime you go into anything that's different and new, there's a bit of fear.
~ Kelly Marie Tran
When you do something for the first time, questions and problems are the two things you can count on.
~ Howard Schultz
Le hasard pur n'engendre que le chaos. Le déterminisme pur ne crée rien de nouveau. C'est l'association de ces deux facteurs qui donne naissance à la richesse et à la variété des formes de la Nature.
~ Hubert Reeves
So I said, like, whazz new, I mean, like new new, not old new, yuh know, like last-week new
~ Unknown
Ah, the beautiful echoing of a newborn baby's cry.
~ Unknown
Pray that the summer mornings are many when with such pleasure, with such joy you will enter ports seen for the first time
~ Unknown