Quotes and Sayings About Novelty
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me,
-- Abigail Washburn -
We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?
-- Ambrose -
Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.
-- Andre Maurois -
A novelty in Polish filmmaking was that it was possible to find funds for a big production. However, at the same time, the state budget committed less and less money to filmmaking.
-- Andrzej Wajda -
Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.
-- Aphra Behn -
The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.
-- August Bournonville -
A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.
-- B. F. Skinner -
There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.
-- Ben H. Winters -
I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.
-- Berthe Morisot -
There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.
-- Charles Stross -
The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.
-- Corinne Maier -
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.
-- Daniel Kahneman -
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.
-- David Riesman -
I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.
-- Dick Clark -
Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty
-- Dominic Lawson -
The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.
-- Edmund Gosse -
A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.
-- Edward Norton -
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.
-- Ernst Mayr -
I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.
-- Eva Zeisel -
Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.
-- Eva Zeisel -
It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new species. Novelties come from previously unseen association of old material. To create is to recombine.
-- Francois Jacob -
The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.
-- Frank Barron -
The phenomenon of emergence takes place at critical points of instability that arise from fluctuations in the environment, amplified by feedback loops. Emergence results in the creation of novelty, and this novelty is often qualitatively different from the phenomenon out of which it emerged.
-- Fritjof Capra -
Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.
-- Garry Kasparov -
If one had to single out the most revolutionary novelty furnished by Qumran, its contribution to our understanding of the genesis of Jewish literary compositions could justifiably be our primary choice.
-- Geza Vermes -
We live of novelty in science. So when you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that it cannot be done, that it's not interesting and so on.
-- Heinrich Rohrer -
Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
-- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
