Novelty Quotes - Page 4

• I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

  Berthe Morisot

  Past, Extremes

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• I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as institutions change and develop.

  Noam Chomsky

  Institutions, Implications

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Exotic novelty. My statement to [people] is always, well, set this picture in your home town, is it still an interesting picture? Or is it just exotic? Would I care about this same picture minus its exoticism?

  Sam Abell

  Home, People, Interesting

  Source: dougplummer.blogs.com

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• Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

  Jill Lepore

  Past, Innovation, Different

  "Wall Street Protests: Cash-Roots" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. October 6, 2011.

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• If you only ever heard "Valley Girl," or "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," or a song that has a comedic narrative, you would get some impression that that was novelty music, but that's the only stuff that ever got on the radio. You can make the argument that that's what has confused generations as to what his music's about.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Girl, Song, Confused

  "Dweezil Zappa plays... whatever he wants". Interview with Allison Stewart, www.chicagotribune.com. October 6, 2016.

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• The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's something that didn't come from you. It was about the other thing - the thing you were experiencing, or the people you were with, or the mechanism you were operating, or whatever it might be.

  Ian Bogost

  Fun, People, Might

  Source: app.longform.org

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• Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

  Joshua Foer

  Cubicles, Monotony, Collapse

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.61, Penguin

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• 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

  Being A Woman, Conscious, Bias

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• Titled players appeared to be trotting out game after game in which the same old hoary opening sequences, memorized out to fifteen, twenty, or even more moves, were repeated endlessly. True novelties were becoming scarcer, and sometimes these 'opening' novelties didn't appear until well into the middlegame. (A master-level friend once proudly showed me a novelty he'd discovered at move twenty-seven of a very well-trodden chess opening, and it's said that even as far back as the 1950's Mikhail Botvinnik had some openings memorised past the thirtieth move).

  Steve Lopez

  Moving, Past, Player

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• Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Order, Doe

  Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin (1978). “Process and reality: an essay in cosmology”, Free Pr

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• 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

  May, Preoccupation, Triviality

  David Riesman (1955). “Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered”

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• Novelties please less than they impress.

  Charles Dickens

  Impress, Please

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• At the other end of the spectrum, George Gideon Oliver King Rameses Osborne, the fourteen-year-old novelty Chancellor and future baronet of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon - a man so posh he probably weeps champagne.

  Charlie Brooker

  Kings, Men, Years

  Charlie Brooker (2012). “I Can Make You Hate”, p.212, Faber & Faber

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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

  Chinese, Chinese Music, Feels

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• The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization contains both designed and emergent structures. The challenge is to find the right balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of design.

  Fritjof Capra

  Creativity, Organization, Design

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• It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Strong, Doctrine

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2008). “The Doctrines of Grace”, p.7, Lulu.com

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• Discovery is new beginning. It is the origin of new rules that supplement, or even supplant, the old. Genius is creative. It is genius precisely because it disregards established routines, because it originates the novelties that will be the routines of the future. Were there rules for discovery, then discoveries would be mere conclusions.

  Bernard Lonergan

  New Beginnings, Discovery, Creative

  Bernard Lonergan (1992). “Insight: A Study of Human Understanding”, p.77, University of Toronto Press

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• Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Real, Ignorance

  William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.37

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• 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

  Technology, Arbitrary, Environment

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• Let's forget the novelties. If we prevail in prayer, God will do only what he can do. How he does things, when he does them, and in what manner are up to him. The name of Jesus, the power of his blood, and the prayer of faith have never lost their power over the centuries.

  Jim Cymbala

  Jesus, Prayer, Blood

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.130, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

  Stanley Morison

  Moving, Successful, Design

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• 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

  Science, Giving, Association

  François Jacob, Nadine Peyrieras, Michel Morange (2002). “Travaux scientifiques de François Jacob”, p.709, Odile Jacob

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• True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Forever, Unity, Genius

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• 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

  Art, Essentials, Deceiving

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• 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

  Education, Holiday, Vacation

  Margaret Laurence (1993). “A Jest of God”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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