Quotes About Novelty

There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that impact.

A new broom sweeps clean!

It was unprecedented! It was madness! It was just begging for cooties!

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

Several years ago, Debashish Chatterjee, a good friend and well-known author on leadership1 opened a seminar on leadership at MIT by saying, 'I've been guided in my work by the notion that older is often better. If an idea has been around for a few thousand years, it's been submitted to many tests—which is a good indicator that it might have some real merit. We're fixated on newness, which often misleads us into elevating novelty over substance.

God doesn't repeat himself

Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.

New can be an emotion.

There is no way to describe how I feel. This is something I've never known. She has told me something I've never known.

And perhaps the sun, in search of novelty, will rise in the west.

If the audience gets to see anything in abundance, they lose interest.

I always get excited by the idea of adventure, of doing something different.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

When you do something for the first time, questions and problems are the two things you can count on.

Do what is unexpected of you.

The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

It's really rare in TV not to think, 'Well, I've seen a version of this before.'

When anyone pitches me - and I've heard it a million times: 'It's the black Seinfeld,' or, 'It's the new version of something that's already been successful' - I immediately shut it off. I won't ever entertain doing 'the new version of such-and-such.'

The theatrical versions are the definitive versions. I regard the extended cuts as being a novelty for the fans that really want to see the extra material.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

The second time, I had a freakin' vampire at my back." I froze. Oh shit. "No offense, Mr. Moreau," I quickly added. "None taken, Agent Fraser. During the course of my lengthy life, I have been called many things, but 'freakin'' has never been one of them. I'll consider it a novelty.

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

After the endless disappointing cups of Nescafé, served as though the tasteless dissolving granules of instant coffee were a delicacy, Alexis felt no cup of coffee had ever tasted as powerful and delicious as this. It seemed that nobody had the heart to tell the Greeks that Nescafé was no longer a novelty – it was this old-fashioned thick and treacly fluid that everyone, including her, craved.

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.