New Things Quotes

• It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.

  Josiah Warren

  Dangerous

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• Ask a new question and you will learn new things.

  George Greenstein

  Asks

  George Greenstein (1988). “The symbiotic universe: life and mind in the cosmos”

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• It's hard to invent a new thing, and it's just as hard to invent another new thing.

  Steve Ballmer

  Hard

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• Observe constantly that all things take place by change.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Change, Things Change, All Things

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.42, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Careers, Will And Determination

  Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Mistake, Years

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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• Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

  Walt Disney

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Next Move

  "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

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• When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Artist, Obvious Things

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.35, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

  Louis E. Boone

  Life, Sad, Fear

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• So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Art, Mistake

  "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

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• The greatest failure is the failure to try.

  William Arthur Ward

  Life, Failure, Inspiration

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Mistake, Years

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• But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Night, Thinking

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• You know, it really doesn`t matter what the media write as long as you`ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, Stupid, Writing

  "Would God Be So Good?" by Barry Friedman, www.esquire.com. July 29, 2013.

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• And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We're always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it's only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Thinking, Best Job

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Mistake, Years

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery.

  Sara Genn

  Joy, Mastery, Enthusiasm

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• Keep an open mind; it's the only way new things can get in.

  Colleen Hoover

  Mind, Way, Open Mind

  Colleen Hoover (2012). “Slammed”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• People don't want to do new things if they think they're going to be bad at them or people are going to laugh at them. You have to be willing to subject yourself to failure, to be bad, to fall on your head and do it again, and try stuff that you've never done in order to be the best you can be.

  Laird Hamilton

  Fall, Thinking, Order

  "Assets Management". www.outsideonline.com. June 5, 2007.

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• We continue to think of new things in old ways.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Thinking, Way, Old Ways

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• The world is for newness, not for oldness. New, new things we have to create. Then only the world will progress. If not, we will come to feel that there is nothing new under the sun. We have to create new things to keep our joy. If there is no newness, how can we have enthusiasm? And if there is no enthusiasm, do we make any progress?

  Sri Chinmoy

  Joy, Progress, World

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• New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

  Samuel Johnson

  Made, Familiar, Familiar Things

  Lives of the English Poets "Pope" (1779 - 1781)

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• We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not "recollected" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is "tranquil" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.

  T. S. Eliot

  Believe, Numbers, Atmosphere

  "Reading Prose: An Introduction to Critical Study". Book by T. S. Eliot (p. 505), 1952.

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