Quotes About Novelty

I was always against starting the show with new material because the fans don't know it. They just look at you, and it's not explosive.

Most people who have had big fads have turned out to be just like their products: one-shot deals.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

Any time you're comfortable or familiar with something, it's easier than something you're not familiar with.

false stories had six times the retweeting rate on Twitter as true stories. The researchers did not interpret that finding as specific to Twitter, and the result may be specific to the time of the study, a time when mistrust of conventional media sources was higher than usual. Rather, these authors interpreted their results as confirming that people are "more likely to share novel information." In other words, contagion reflects the urge to titillate and surprise others.

El lector verdadero está siempre leyendo un libro -o dos, o tres o diez- y la novedad llega como una molestia -a veces irritante, a veces agradable, a veces incluso deseada- en el seno de esa actividad ininterrumpida. Donde, no sin esfuerzo, deberá conquistar un espacio, si no cae antes de las manos del lector. Este, entonces, volverá felizmente a ese otro libro que estaba leyendo porque eso es precisamente lo que tenía ganas de hacer.

Nobody ever reads the same book twice.

Aquélla sería su casa. Aunque para Julián aquel mundo mágico de Sivana era una absoluta novedad, tenía sin embargo la sensación de que era un poco como volver a casa, un regreso a un paraíso que hubiera conocido mucho tiempo atrás. Aquella aldea de rosas no le resultaba

The first time you fall in love, it's like you've created the first love in the universe, and the first time someone you love dies, you grieve the universe's first death. What does it help to be told that what you feel is nothing new?

As someone called Anonymous once said, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.

It becomes clear from Adeimantos' speech that Glaukon's view according to which justice is choiceworthy entirely for its own sake is altogether novel, for in the traditional view justice was regarded as choiceworthy chiefly, if not exclusively, because of the divine rewards for justice and the divine punishments for injustice, and various other consequences.

As our lives have been flooded with novelty and change, they have become more hectic than ever before, at both home and work. We are barraged by a constant stream of information, and thanks to all of our screens and devices, we are in ceaseless contact with dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of other people, rarely (if ever) enjoying any complete downtime.

in the recent past, as the pace of change has quickened, the calculus governing the benefits of embracing novelty has been dramatically altered. Today's society bestows rewards as never before upon those who are comfortable with change, and it may punish those who are not, for what used to be the safe terrain of stability is now often a dangerous minefield of stagnation.

In m second year I attended a public debate on a theme that interested me, though not by its novelty: does life mainly evolve through small gradual changes, or through big catastrophic ones? In those days that theme was supposed to be religious as well as scientific, so the principle speakers swerved from fanatical solemnity to facetious jocularity, and changed the ground of their argument whenever it gave them the slightest advantage over their opponents.

And, anyhow, hadn't you better wait till you actually see the new world?

La belleza ejerce una atracción, y nosotros no queremos que la gente se sienta atraída por cosas antiguas. Queremos que les gusten las nuevas.

Woman wants monogamy; / Man delights in novelty. / Love is woman's moon and sun; / Man has other forms of fun. . . / With this the gist and sum of it, / What earthly good can come of it?

the sheen of novelty had worn off. Sometimes it seemed to the performers and writers that the only comment they heard was how Saturday Night had gone downhill—indeed, that it had been going downhill since about the fourth week it was on. The higher the ratings got, the more disdainful the criticism became. Anne Beatts grew fond of saying that you can only be avant-garde so long before you become garde.

They were a reshuffling of the genetic deck never seen on Earth.

Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.

My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that.

Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.