Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored. — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Legislative novelty is not necessarily fatal; there is a first time for everything. — John Roberts Copy Share Image
“The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the laws of diminishing returns.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
We know the human mind is programmed to glaze over when bored. Conversely, the mind is more alert in the presence of… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The commercial flight thing, it just gets a little weird when you're standing in line and suddenly you're not just a guy… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
All I'm saying is that I understand if the novelty's worn off and you want to get off the carousel ride now… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on… — Bubba Sparxxx Copy Share Image
When you're a kid, you think 'Oh, it's so great. I'm going to go to Hollywood. I'm going to go to Broadway.'… — Reggie Lee Copy Share Image
“The only people who really think they have seen something new are those whose experience is limited or whose vision can't penetrate… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Can you imagine in 2016 there is a discussion about #OscarsSoWhite? Is it a novelty we've just discovered that the whole production… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
“when something breaks the cause-and-effect pattern we've come to expect — when we encounter something outside the norm — we suddenly become… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs… — Jack Williamson Copy Share Image
I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
Night and day a picture of the showcase of the Lame Novelty Company and its gambling content would seem to appear before… — John Scarne Copy Share Image
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“And perhaps I understood it all wrong, but I understood it and that was the novelty.” — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Many pleasant things are better when they belong to someone else. When things belong to others, we enjoy them twice as much,… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
On average, the higher the novelty score a film had, the better it did at the box office. But only up to… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“A bit o' bread's what I like from one year's end to the other; but men's stomachs are made so comical, they… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Emma was just like any other mistress; and the charm of novelty, falling down slowly like a dress, exposed only the eternal… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang… — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
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