Quotes About Novelty

First times are always sacred. May we never run out of "firsts

We learn from repetition—at the expense of events that have not happened before.

If it were known and obvious, then someone next door would have already come up with the idea and it would have become generic.

These impulses to buy new things that will eventually lose their novelty

Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you—only when it doesn't.

Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you—only when it doesn't.

Flexibility, in contrast, is the natural consequence of self-esteem. A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet, unemcumbered by irrelevant attachments, able to respond quickly to novelty because it is open to seeing.

I don't know why, but with each new woman it seemed like the first time, almost as if I had never been with a woman before.

To him, the world had no order of succession, no causation, no precedent. Everything he saw was new-minted, and thus every day was a parade of wonders.

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.

I don't like doing the same runs. I like to mix it up a lot.

I am not the one for monotony. I am all for chances and its every medium, every genre that I want to explore.

There is always a new flavor of the month, especially in film.

I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do.

Amazing,' Dave Jensen kept saying. 'A new wrinkle. I never seen it before.' Mitchell Sanders took out his yo-yo. 'Well, that's Nam.' he said. 'Garden of Evil. Over here, man, every sin's real fresh and original.

To walk out of your front door as if you've just arrived from a foreign country; to discover the world in which you already live; to begin the day as if you've just gotten off the boat from Singapore and have never seen your own doormat or the people on the landing . . . it is this that reveals the humanity before you, unknown until now.

In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd. Incongruously enough, however, when we allow ourselves to fully accept uncertainty, to embrace and cultivate it even, then we actually can begin to feel within ourselves the presence of an Absolute. The person who cannot welcome ambiguity cannot welcome God.

but when you see something only once a year it's always new, as if you're seeing it for the first time.

The whole experience felt like what drugs must have felt like. It was the high of doing something weird, not knowing the outcome.

Misoneism" — a fear of the new and the unknown

A world, and a church, which is hooked on novelty like some cultural equivalent of crack cocaine needs the cold, cynical eye of the historian to stand as a prophetic witness against it.

Solo lo que es realmente único e inesperado está en condiciones de destacar del resto». El cerebro no puede ignorar la novedad y, una vez que incorporemos las técnicas de esta sección, los oyentes no serán capaces de ignorarnos.

Sometimes it's good to give people something they're not expecting.