Quotes About Novelty

Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that it's completely unrelated to everything that came before.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Stores can be indifferent to something new.

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

Schwartz suggests that our values are structured around these two distinct tensions (Figure 7.2) in our psychological make-up: between selfishness (self-enhancement, in Schwartz's scheme) and altruism (self-transcendence) on the one hand, and between novelty (or openness to change) and tradition (or conservation) on the other.39

the counters and center island were crammed with mason jars and novelty saltshakers and cookie jars in the shapes of cats, blimps, pumpkins, frogs, robots, potbellied demons, and other things.

la hora de valorar un producto nuevo, me centro en sus aspectos novedosos (no en todos ellos) e interpreto de forma exhaustiva cómo pueden impactar en las emociones de los consumidores que lo usen. Después de eso, considero cómo pueden evolucionar esos mismos aspectos con el tiempo.

At the sensory level I am the divine receiving station...a two-legged, trembling-tissue, Jodrell Bank radar telescope, dancing, grumbling, sniffling Geiger counter" "But there's an added feature. Each generation, I...return. Each time carried onstage, blinking, puking, bawling, bewildered by the bizarre novelty of each new drama, untutored in the language of the new script (did she say her name was Mommie?)

Ein Sadhu hat mir einmal etwas Interessantes gesagt. Ich weiss nicht, ob es stimmt, aber mir kam es sinnvoll vor. Er meinte, achtundneunzig von hundert Gedanken hat man schon mal gehabt. Auch die Gedanken wiederholen sich. Deshalb kann man sie genauso gut anhalten, also ganz zum Schweigen bringen. In der Stille findet man dann vielleicht einen oder zwei Gedanken, die wirklich neu sind.

wasn't as important as the act of changing. People were charmed by differentness, they liked the attention, they were intrigued by novelty. This has come to be called the Hawthorne Effect.

The first record with an artist oftentimes can be the most exciting. When it's not routine for them, when it's really new is the best moment in their careers.

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

I don't like the same old thing all the time.

I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book.

Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself do not interest me. The have not got the charm of novelty.

In a complex world where almost everyone has access to the same information, new value arises from the original synthesis, from putting ideas together in novel ways, and from smart questions that open up untapped potential.

In a complex world where almost everyone has access to the same information, new value arises from the original synthesis, from putting ideas together in novel ways, and from smart questions that open up untapped potential. Creative insights entail joining elements in a useful, fresh way.

Silence is another barometer of timidity. A timid silence in the face of novelty or a perceived threat is a sign of the activity of a neural circuit running between the forebrain, the amygdala, and nearby limbic structures that control the ability to vocalize. These same circuits make us choke up under stress. These sensitive children are at high risk for developing an anxiety disorder such as panic attacks, starting as early as sixth or seventh grade.

Nationalism – in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies – consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.

4. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.