New Ways Quotes - Page 13

• He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

  Samuel Johnson

  Greatness, Thinking, Dull

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 28 Mar. 1775)

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• The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Jogging, Tofu, Enthusiasm

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• But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Pockets, Way, Shallow

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.161, St. Martin's Griffin

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• It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

  Michael Dell

  Success, Business, Opportunity

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• Doing the things we do now and doing them better, cheaper and faster will take us far. But it will not take us far enough. We're going to have to do new things in new ways.

  Peter Bonfield

  Business, Way, Enough

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• Introducing 'Lite': the new way to spell 'Light'; but with twenty per cent fewer letters.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Hilarious, Light, Twenties

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• Hours fly,
  Flowers die:
  New days,
  New ways:
  Pass by!
  Love stays.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Flower, New Day

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The works of Henry Van Dyke”

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• I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Peace, Believe, Way

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• "There's been a quantum leap technologically in our age, but unless there's another quantum leap in human relations, unless we learn to live in a new way towards one another, there will be a catastrophe."

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Age, Way

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• Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized this process of leaping ahead, however, in part because textbooks tend to tame revolutions...They describe the advances as if they had been logical in their day, not all shocking.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Real, Science, Understanding Nature

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• We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Teamwork, Future, People

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• Think of new ways to do old things. You must protect against boredom in a practice situation.

  George Raveling

  Basketball, Thinking, Old Things

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• When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. . . . When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

  Carl Rogers

  Responsibility, Confusion, Empathy

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• Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had to discover new ways of dealing with the past. In this he became a master when he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by the citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power to settle down, piecemeal, in the present and to deprive it of ‘peace of mind,’ the mindless peace of complacency.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loss, Past, Mind

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• It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.

  PJ Harvey

  Play, Giving, Energy

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• Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work.

  Seth Godin

  Clever, People, Marketing

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• The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out in a new direction, in a new way, armed with our own self-regard, our own confidence and fully appreciating our own uniqueness. All other roads will lead us into the shadow of great powers.

  Paul Keating

  Self, Ideas, Australia

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• I have a new way of doing things, and I don’t care if you think I’m crazy.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Crazy, Thinking, Care

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• So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein - more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Soul, Way, Steps

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2001). “Frankenstein”, p.46, Courier Corporation

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• A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.

  L. Neil Smith

  Jobs, Winning, Presidential

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• Creativity is not just for artists. It's for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it's for engineers trying to solve a problem; it's for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way.

  Twyla Tharp

  Children, Creativity, Artist

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• My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

  Marcel Proust

  Way, Destination, Seeing

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• There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of his own. It would be like making comparisons with Warhol.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, League, Would Be

  "Tracey Emin's Film About Institutional Sexism in Art". Interview with Sophie Leiris, www.independent.co.uk. March 12, 2006.

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• When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the very nature of the medium itself. I want to discover new ways of configuring the world, both the world outside and the world within

  Pipilotti Rist

  Art, Creativity, Eye

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• Empathy allows us to re-perceive our world in a new way and move forward.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Moving, Our World, Empathy

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