Quotes About Novelty

Entrepreneurial creation is the generation, de novo, of novelty and surprise—freedom of choice originating in the world of ideas, and imagination beyond all concern with chemicals. The contrary view—that all ideas are determined by material relationships—is the materialist superstition.

Speak the truth and you will be conspicuous. The human race loves novelty.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

A fish on a leash, he said, chortling. There's a sight I never saw before.

There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar, anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity

It is precisely resemblance that reconciles habit and novelty, balancing them out, fusing them at some indefinite point, acting as their horizon line.

Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

Between two evils, I always picked the one I never tried before.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.

I just won't sleep, I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.

That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.

I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

As soon as I get a typical day, I'll know I'm in trouble. I like doing different things all the time.

There is never a typical week. I don't think I can live with a typical week.

Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work, I move up a step and discover something new inside me.

The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.