Freshness Quotes - Page 2

• Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.

  Amy Lowell

  Art, Lines, Theory

  Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.6, Ardent Media

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

  John Muir

  Wisdom, Nature, Autumn

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Morning, Thoughtful, Soul

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.

  Saadi

  Travel, Heart, Cities

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• One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

  Henri Matisse

  Instinct, Lost, Behinds

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• Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Ideas, Perfect, Interesting

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• Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

  Jean Cocteau

  Jobs, Light, Done

  "A Call to Order". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1926.

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• Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings a certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.

  Robert Redford

  Reality, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. July 1, 2004.

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• It is our uniqueness that gives freshness and vitality to a relationship.

  James Dobson

  Unique, Giving, Vitality

  Dr. James Dobson (2012). “Love for a Lifetime: Building a Marriage That Will Go the Distance”, p.46, Multnomah

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• [In "The Invisible Woman"] was a different type of performance which was less driven by improv. You always want moments of freshness and newness, but there was less so than I've done before.

  Felicity Jones

  Want, Different, Done

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness of your consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains young.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Simplicity, Innocence

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• The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me.

  Chief Dan George

  Morning, Stars, Flower

  Chief Dan George, “My Heart Soars”

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• If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.

  Lorrie Moore

  Long, Projects, Approach

  "'I would like to live in that year forever.'". Interview with Michael Hafford, logger.believermag.com. April 24, 2014.

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• But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was turned back to the peoplein which government at all levels was refreshed and renewed and made truly responsive. This can be a revolution as profound, as far-reaching, as exciting as that first revolution almost 200 years agoand it can mean that just 5 years from now America will enter its third century as a young nation new in spirit, with all the vigor and the freshness with which it began its first century.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Mean, America

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• For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.

  Robert Genn

  Drawing, Spontaneity, Tyranny

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• With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Generations, Losing

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• Approach each asana with freshness every day.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Asana, Approach

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• Just Cavalli for Her is a flowery and sexy fragrance. I like its freshness and feminine scent.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Sexy, Scent, Feminine

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• When we dare to doubt what we are told and take a fresh look at what's going on, we are in for lots of pleasant and fascinating and useful surprises. A new and more satisfying way of life begins to open up, just by noticing what we see.

  Douglas Harding

  Doubt, Looks, Way

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• A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

  Ezra Pound

  Definitions, Classic, Fit

  Ezra Pound (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• But it's healthy - whatever you can do to keep you fresh and awake. Acting's such a ridiculous job and sometimes you need to look at it like that to get a sort of degree of freshness.

  Eric Bana

  Jobs, Healthy, Acting

  "The Other Boleyn Girl - Eric Bana interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Tony Vigorito has grown a cult following of thousands for one reason - his stuff is fun to read... It's... filled with the freshness and the freewheeling independence that made his reputation... This book is the 'work' of one of the least pretentious and most enjoyable to read novelists at play in America today.

  Kris Saknussemm

  Fun, Book, Play

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• In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.

  Dale Carnegie

  Self, Improvement, Spontaneity

  "The Quick And Easy Way To Effective Speaking".

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• I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a story without concern for precision or freshness in the use of language. Some of this storytelling reads as if it were spoken rather than written, stuffed with tired images that pop into the writer's head because they are so familiar. The top of the head is fit for growing hair, but not for generating fine prose.

  Sol Stein

  Book, Writing, Tired

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• Because life is short. I feel we’re made of a hunger, a desire for life – if that can be described as a material. As I get older, I’m trying to open that channel more. If you don’t, if you close off desire and get complacent, life loses its freshness and sweetness, and that’s what I crave. That’s my bliss.

  Sarah Slean

  Life Is Short, Desire, Trying

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