Quotes About Novelty

hall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man

Ancak bir gezginin yaÅŸam?n?n, eÄŸlencenin yan?nda daha çok ac? içerdiÄŸini anlad?. Duygular? sürekli gergindir ve dinlenmeye baÅŸlam??ken, kendini, keyfini sürdüÄŸü ÅŸeyi, yeniden ilgisini çeken ve diÄŸer yenilikler için feda ettiÄŸi, yeni bir ÅŸey için terk etmek zorunda bulur.

But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.

Then there appeared upon the earth a new kind of hominid, which refused to play by the rules. Without any changes in its body, and without any succession of species, it just kept changing its habits. For the first time its technology changed faster than its anatomy. This was an evolutionary novelty, and you are it. When

Without trade, innovation just does not happen. Exchange is to technology as sex is to evolution. It stimulates novelty.

Exchange is to technology as sex is to evolution. It stimulates novelty

New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change, Betsy decided profoundly.

For folks in many parts of the world, the sight of a head of state making him- or herself accessible for direct questioning from citizens was a novelty—and a more meaningful argument for democracy than any lecture I might give.

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The second precondition is that the network be plastic, capable of adopting new configurations. A dense network incapable of forming new patterns is, by definition, incapable of change, incapable of probing at the edges of the adjacent possible. When a new idea pops into your head, the sense of novelty that makes the experience so magical has a direct correlate in the cells of your brain: a brand-new assemblage of neurons has come together to make the thought possible.

Well, for starters, the obvious: we all seem to agree genius begins with feats of mental greatness. The thinking needs to be novel, so the results need to be beyond what most can envision. As it takes courage to push past the confines of culture, the thinking must also be brave. Because an athlete's canvas is nothing more than his body moving through space and time, then an act of genius must also be defined as an act of redefinition–redefining what is possible for the human body.

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don't interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

Una información suficientemente novedosa transmitida verbalmente podría alterar el paradigma semántico, episódico y procedimental simultáneamente, aunque la totalidad de esos efectos podría no manifestarse durante años -y, no infrecuentemente, durante generaciones.

I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object; unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Anyone acquainted with Helen's characteristics would know that she always manufactured leisure for an unfamiliar job, even if she had to neglect some legitimate duty. It was the infusion of novelty into her dull routine which helped to keep undimmed her passionate zest for life.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

I don't want to repeat myself.

I always wanted to do something different with each film. So I guess that means that I wanted to not repeat myself. There has to be some kind of a new element in each project that I take up.

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.