Novelty Quotes - Page 7

• To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. .... There's a lot of evidence to suggest that repetition is bad for brain health, and novelty is good.

  Robert Winston

  Challenges, Brain, Connections

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• The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and versatility over specialization. With such an ethic, consumers would demand a shift toward more timeless design, away from fast-moving trends. Clothes could become more versatile in terms of what they can be used for, their ability to fit differently shaped bodies and to be altered.

  Juliet B. Schor

  Moving, Practice, Clothes

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• The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Creative, Metaphysical, Ultimate

  Alfred North Whitehead (1969). “Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology; Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28”, New York : Macmillan

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• I would start off with a lively rag, then would come a ballad, followed by a comedy song and a novelty number, and finally, the hot song. In this way, I left the stage with the audience laughing their heads off.

  Sophie Tucker

  Song, Numbers, Laughing

  SOPHIE TUCKER (1945). “Some of These Days: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SOPHIE TUCKER”

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• For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Successful, Sea, Doe

  "The Aims of Education". Book by Alfred North Whitehead, 1929.

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• No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority either from the circumstance of its novelty or its antiquity, that it should be judged excellent, not because it is reasonable or true, but because no person has ever thought of it before, or because it has been thought of from the beginning of time.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mistake, Moral, Excellent

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”

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• "Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.

  Jack Williamson

  Mean, Past, Ideas

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• In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Expectations, Resistance, Difficulty

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, University of Chicago Press

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• New York became the first state to ban talking on hand-held cell phones while driving. First-time violators could receive a fine of $100, with an additional mandatory six-month jail sentence if your ringer plays a Latin-themed novelty song.

  Jon Stewart

  Song, New York, Latin

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• I didn't want to be either the cre`me de la cre`me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that doesn't understand the language I write in.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Writing, Democracy, Want

  "Joseph Brodsky's Art of Darkness". www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 1987.

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• I have never sought the unexpected, the novelty, the extraordinary, but rather what is most typical of our daily life... I go out to find people who resemble me, and the mirror which these images offer them is the same as that in which I see myself.

  Willy Ronis

  Mirrors, People, Typical

  Peter Hamilton, Willy Ronis, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England) (1995). “Willy Ronis: photographs, 1926-1995”

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• Can you imagine in 2016 there is a discussion about #OscarsSoWhite? Is it a novelty we've just discovered that the whole production machine is dominated by only one type of human being, excluding women, excluding gays, excluding minorities? This is not new.

  Raoul Peck

  Gay, Minorities, Machines

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Portuguese

  Source: theuntranslated.wordpress.com

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• Pop music - what used to be known as rock music, a loud novelty - can be something more than a pointless, artificial diversion.

  Paul Morley

  Rocks, Rock Music, Used

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• With sports and games, you have fun despite working very hard, even despite failing repeatedly. Even the fun of a night out, you have to get somewhere and do all the conversational, social work of being out. There's effort involved. But then when you're finished, you can conclude, "Actually there was something gratifying about the hardship that I just encountered." That discovery of novelty is where the molten core of fun is.

  Ian Bogost

  Sports, Fun, Night

  Source: app.longform.org

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• I wanted to be a writer for a while. I was an excellent child writer. I won multiple poetry contests. I was published at age three - I think that was more about novelty than my immense talent.

  Aya Cash

  Children, Thinking, Age

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Sitting, Afternoon, World

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• When I made 'Sleepwalk with Me,' many people asked me if was a novelty thing, a one-off. But this is the goal, I'm just hitting it 12 years after I thought I would.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Years, People, Goal

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Hopefully I never get hit with that stigma of being a novelty act. Since [my father] death in 1998 I've been doing a program called Sinatra Sings Sinatra.

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Father, Program, Stigma

  Source: www.dailypress.com

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• For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big score or the next hot get. Paradoxically, in these days of instant communication and sixty-minute news cycles, it's actually easier to miss information we might otherwise pay attention to. That's why we need stories to be covered and re-covered until they filter up enough to become part of the cultural bloodstream.

  Arianna Huffington

  Moving, Communication, Sixty Minutes

  "Arianna Huffington: Measuring Success Based on a Third Metric". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events, both because of their novelty and because of the natural malignity that exists within us.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Love, Unusual Things, Secret

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• My first song was Hula Hoop Song, in 1955. It was a novelty song. I had to find someway to reach out and it was with a novelty song. Now, all of my recording obligations have been taken care of. I made 14 albums for Warner Brothers. Five for United Artist before that.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Brother, Taken

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Are we on the tail-end of a generation that is enamored with the novelty of these devices and will younger people coming of age be more blasé about them in a healthy way? You look back at the history of any medium and the people who were there when it was developing, whether it was the telegraph or cable television or radio, thought, This is amazing, it's going change everything, or, The human community will finally be able to recognize each other and speak and be one - I mean, some people thought the telegraph or television would usher in world peace.

  Astra Taylor

  Mean, People, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty

  Derren Brown

  Weather, Fascination, Helpful

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• A lot of guys get slammed pretty hard. I do think there's a tendency with women performers to just sort of write them off. The "Flavor of the Month" kind of thing. Or as a novelty, because I do think women in bands are still considered a novelty, or a little confection.

  Nina Gordon

  Writing, Thinking, Flavor Of The Month

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