Quotes About Novelty

I was in a department store and I saw a weird-looking gadget. I asked the young saleslady what it was. She answered, "It doesn't do anything. It's just a Christmas gift."

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

Personne ne peut me dire une richesse nouvelle

Rien ne vaut la peine d'être trouvé que ce qui n'a jamais existé encore.

Even the most exotic excursions can become tedious through repetition.

Still, the novelty of any letter or package was sufficient that no one suggested opening it until the full measure of enjoyment should have been extracted from speculation about its contents.

The biggest reason for me to take up Naagin 4' was that I have never attempted something like this.

For me, what makes a dope concept is it's a fresh idea, something that I've never heard before.

Coming into a new dressing room is exciting.

Duplication never works for anybody.

It's never been my goal to create something that is found on the internet elsewhere. I only want to create things that are new.

Every day should be an adventure, not a treadmill

Her way of living in the world, filled with interest in what the world can give her, dismisses the egocentric abyss of the suicide's novel that ends by sinking into itself.

Perhaps nothing escapes this fate but the liveliness and nimbleness of the mind—the very qualities with which the novel is written, qualities that belong to a universe other than the one we live in.

It's like whenever a friend wants to show me their favorite movie... ... and it's great and all, but... ... I'd rather see something that they hadn't seen before. So we could watch it for the first time together.

When we have an experience—hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set from a particular window of a particular room—on successive occasions, we quickly begin to adapt to it, and the experience yields less pleasure each time. Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenges, to extend and exercise their capacities, to explore, and to learn.

in a time of abundance, when the largest rewards go to those who can devise novel and compelling creations, metaphor-making is vital.

the prefrontal cortex has a novelty bias, meaning that its attention can be easily hijacked by something new—the proverbial shiny objects we use to entice infants, puppies, and kittens.

Los cambios cerebrales que se dan durante los primeros años de la juventud establecen durante la adolescencia cuatro cualidades en nuestra mente: búsqueda de novedades, implicación social, aumento de la intensidad emocional y experimentación creativa.

Yet when adults lose the four distinguishing features of adolescence, when they stop cultivating the power of novelty seeking, social engagement, emotional intensity, and creative exploration, life can become boring, isolating, dull, and routinized.

To all of our viewers out there - expect the unexpected.

Agents and publishers are always looking for something 'different,' a fresh viewpoint and a new voice, not just re-hashed versions of stuff that's gone before.