Novelty always sparks ideas.

“when something breaks the cause-and-effect pattern we've come to expect — when we encounter something outside the norm — we suddenly become aware of…

— Nir Eyal

“But there was a difference between being bright and possessing those sparks of ideas that lead to original thought.”

— Stuart Rojstaczer

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and…

— Grace Lee Boggs

I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big…

— Lisa Gansky

The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first…

— Carl Rogers

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

— Wendell Berry

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new…

— Samuel Johnson

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

— Daniel Kahneman

“In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.”

— Walter de la Mare

Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

— Charles Stross

What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and…

— Atul Gawande

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested…

— Alfred North Whitehead