Quotes by Novelty They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones. James M. Barrie desert novelty children Human beings are attracted to novelty: to probe the adjacent possible. We didnt stay in the caves. We didnt stay on the planet, and soon we wont stay within the limitations of our biology. We move forward. We transcend our limits. We go to the moon, and we create the Internet. Jason Silva novelty moon moving 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, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin novelty party tea The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching. Jean Piaget gaps novelty problem There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. Henry David Thoreau novelty creativity world There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all the forenoon, but all the afternoon too, sitting with crossed legs, so many of them - as if the legs were made to sit upon, and not to stand or walk upon. Henry David Thoreau afternoon novelty sitting All I'm saying is that I understand if the novelty's worn off and you want to get off the carousel ride now before it kills you. Jennifer Estep carousels novelty want Being a novelty had its advantages. Jessica Savitch novelty advantage literature Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe novelty music doe He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages. John Piper novelty vices age Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention. Joseph A. Schumpeter invention novelty innovation Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments. Joseph Addison novelty entertainment usual Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it. Joshua Foer cubicles monotony novelty In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting. Kenneth E. Boulding artistic novelty art 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 novelty arbitrary technology 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 novelty conscious No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power. Marcus Tullius Cicero tempest novelty democracy Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation. Marshall McLuhan annihilation novelty innovation We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things. Mark Twain novelty garden natural The novelty we want is always close to the familiar. Mason Cooley novelty familiar want «1234567»
