Choice Quote by Jennifer Egan

When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain…

— Paulo Coelho

What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?

— Richard Saul Wurman

Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don't love it, you've given yourself a new experience.

— Alli Simpson

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

— Julia Ward Howe

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget…

— Brian Eno

I think in my life I have so many things that changed so much with work and my career, and I don't really get…

— Sevyn Streeter

Familiarity isn't always a good thing... sometimes you need a little crisis to shake things up.

— Karl Hyde

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.

— David Foster Wallace

I feel completely free to do whatever I want and how I want to do it. I feel unburdened by my past.

— Billy Corgan

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

— George Michael

Finding something new that I know I've never done before is the best feeling I know, and when I get there it's all worth…

— Aesop Rock

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

— Chaka Khan