Novelty famous quotes
04-09-2025
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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 -
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
-- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -
It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.
-- Homer -
Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
-- Irving Thalberg -
Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.
-- Isabella Bird -
The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer -
They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.
-- James M. Barrie -
The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.
-- Jean Piaget -
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
-- John Polkinghorne -
Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.
-- Joseph A. Schumpeter -
In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
-- Kenneth E. Boulding -
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.
-- Lewis Mumford -
If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
-- Madeleine M. Kunin -
No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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.
-- Margaret Laurence -
Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.
-- Mary Catherine Bateson -
Creativity is any act, idea, or product that changes an existing domain, or that transforms an existing domain into a new one What counts is whether the novelty he or she produces is accepted for inclusion in the domain.
-- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -
We survive on novelty, so much less demanding than commitment.
-- Mikhail Lermontov -
The scorn which I had reason to fear on account of the novelty and unconventionality of my opinion almost induced me to abandon completely the work which I had undertaken. . . . Astronomy is written for astronomers. To them my work too will seem, unless I am mistaken, to make some contribution.
-- Nicolaus Copernicus -
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.
-- Nicolaus Copernicus -
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.
-- Oscar Wilde -
And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]
-- Ovid -
An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
-- Pope Benedict XVI -
Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth.
-- Pope Benedict XVI -
Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty!
-- Pope Pius X -
We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.
-- Richard Hofstadter -
Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.
-- Richard Leakey -
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
-- Robert Bresson -
Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
-- Stephen Jay Gould -
We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
-- T. S. Eliot -
There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.
-- Thomas Hood -
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none.
-- Thomas Kuhn -
I wasnt interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.
-- Tom Baker -
Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred.
-- Vincent of Lerins -
All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.
-- Vincent of Lerins -
The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.
-- W. H. Auden -
We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
-- W. Somerset Maugham -
Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
-- Walter Jon Williams -
There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.
-- Wendell Berry -
One picture and one win cannot right a million wrongs. It's a step in the right direction.We have to get to a point where a movie like "Moonlight" winning [Oscar] or Barry Jenkins being nominated and winning, you know, for a screenplay or being nominated for best director - that it's just commonplace. They shouldn't be a novelty.
-- Cheo Hodari Coker -
Hopefully I never get hit with that stigma of being a novelty act. Since [my father] death in 1998 I've been doing a program called Sinatra Sings Sinatra.
-- Frank Sinatra, Jr. -
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.
-- George Leonard -
Can you imagine in 2016 there is a discussion about #OscarsSoWhite? Is it a novelty we've just discovered that the whole production machine is dominated by only one type of human being, excluding women, excluding gays, excluding minorities? This is not new.
-- Raoul Peck -
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
-- Thomas B. Griffith -
Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.
-- Paul Morley -
It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.
-- Raymond Radiguet -
I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.
-- Willy Ronis
