Quotes About Novelty

To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.

The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders - who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they're the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China 'opening up' to the rest of the world.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.

It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

The sequestering of the family in the big house feels to those within the walls like a strange curtailment of their liberty. To those in the village it is no great novelty. For them, even before the wall's building was complete, to stray about the park, without express permission, was to risk having a leg bitten off by a mantrap. Prisoners lament their confinement. Sometimes to be at large is an equal deprivation

To have output you must have input. It helps to go on a period of creative nourishment, or dolce far niente, clearing the brain. Go to bed with the cat, some flouffy pillows, tea and a book which could not in any sense be called improving. Read for fun for a change: superior Chicklit is good, or children's classics. You are not allowed to try and analyse what the author is doing. After a good sleep, go and do something new, or that you haven't done for a while....

That," she says, "was never here before.

It's like a fidget spinner." Then the offering dropped to the ground, tossed aside. The wind had moved on. "Those get boring fast," said Darnell.

The novel is a kind of elephant. But I like to make that elephant dance on a quarter.

Most people are a little scared at new things ... You want a bigger heart to face danger which you go out to look for, and which doesn't come to you in the ordinary way of business. Still, that's pretty much the same thing—good nerves and good health, and a natural liking for rows.

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Imitation can be commercial suicide.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

If you are doing what everyone else is doing, there is probably not an opportunity there.

I'm always excited to try something I haven't done.

It's just exciting to be part of something that is brand-new.

You can't get tired of something you don't know exists.

People always like things that seem exotic.

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

I am looking forward to getting to do things I have never done before.

I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing.