Best Novelty Sayings
271 Novelty quotes by 227 unique authors
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The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili.
— Greg Mortenson
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Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One…
— Plato
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When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on a minute, everyone…
— Bubba Sparxxx
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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,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.
— Aphra Behn
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Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst,…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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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…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were…
— Edward Coke
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Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects, and every moment produces something new…
— Samuel Johnson
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Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.
— Berthe Morisot
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What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and…
— Terence McKenna
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It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.
— Raymond Radiguet
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
— Andre Gide
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Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties…
— Frederick Rolfe
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
— Irving Thalberg
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The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that…
— Eric Chaisson
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What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not…
— Helen Fisher
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Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are…
— Philip Zimbardo
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Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.
— Eva Zeisel
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If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at…
— Herman E. Daly
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Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day, but rather…
— Pope Pius XII
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When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.
— Clement of Alexandria
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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…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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