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Quotes About Novelty

I just think you need to spice up life every now and then with a bit of adventure and excitement.
~ Richard Branson
Replacing "progress" with "innovation" skirts the question of whether a novelty is an improvement: the world may not be getting better and better but our devices are getting newer and newer.
~ Jill Lepore
This is true of the birth of democracy, too. Indeed, the novelty of democratic rule would not have been conceivable without the intense awareness of the common bond forged by shared genealogy as fostered by religion.
~ Joan Breton Connelly
If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?
~ Joe Abercrombie
I marvel at everything as if it were new.
~ Anna Akhmatova
In short, humans are programmed to get bored.
~ Emily Oster
What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
~ Idris Elba
As much as I can and am able to, with the projects that are presented to me, I try to just really choose things that are challenging and are something I haven't tackled before.
~ Michelle Monaghan
Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
~ Mason Cooley
The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.
~ Adam Grant
Happiness can be frightening when one is not accustomed to the sensation.
~ Eva Rice
their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He had never met a girl like this before - she would never seem quite the same again. He didn't at all feel like a character in a play, the appropriate feeling in an unconventional situation - instead, he had a sense of coming home.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I want to write something new - something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned. As usual, F. Scott Fitzgerald
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
They are glad to see each other now – their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is there to confess that's worthwhile or useful? What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood. If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant
~ Fernando Pessoa
Y fue así que nos despertamos en un mundo ávido de novedades sociales y que alegremente se lanzaba hacia la conquista de una libertad que no se sabía muy bien lo que era y de un progreso que jamás pudo definir.
~ Fernando Pessoa
there's novelty and there's the boredom of the eternally new, and the latter brings about the death of the former.
~ Fernando Pessoa
What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either happened to everyone or to us alone; if the former it has no novelty value and if the latter it will be incomprehensible.
~ Fernando Pessoa
It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
~ Ednita Nazario
I always tend to favor the newer idea.
~ Steven Moffat
Every day is quite unique, which is one of my favorite things!
~ Payal Kadakia
There's only so many things you can do with fights, so I'm always trying to shake it up and find something different, new, exciting and fun.
~ Dana White
Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.
~ Adrian Lyne