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• As my uncle always says, 'If your vibe outweighs your substance, you're destined to be a novelty.' I think that is true in all art.

  Mat Kearney

  Art, Uncles, Thinking

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• The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first as erroneous, bad, or foolish. Later it may be seen as obvious, something self-evident to all. Only still later does it receive its final evaluation as a creative contribution. It seems clear no contemporary mortal can satisfactorily evaluate a creative product at the time it is formed, and this statement is increasingly true the greater the novelty of the creation.

  Carl Rogers

  Art, Ideas, Discovery

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• Innovation for holders of conventional wisdom is not novelty but annihilation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Innovation, Annihilation, Conventional Wisdom

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• No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer.

  Raymond Loewy

  Thinking, Benefits, Littles

  Raymond Loewy (2002). “Never Leave Well Enough Alone”, p.187, JHU Press

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• Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then is it that when anyone commits anything novel in the arts he should be always greeted by this same peevish howl of pain and surprise? One is led to suspect that the interest people show in these much talked of commodities, painting, music, and writing, cannot be very deep or very genuine when they so wince under an unexpected impact.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Pain, Husband

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• Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

  Herman Melville

  Thinking, Age, Generations

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.235

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• The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

  Samuel Johnson

  Expectations, Jest, Wit

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.5

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• Fundamentally only two great novelties have come out of recent warfare. They are: (1) mechanical vehicles, which relieve the Soldier of equipment hitherto carried by him; (2) air supply, which relieves the vehicle of the road.

  Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall

  Air, Two, Soldier

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• Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life.

  Kenya Hara

  Ideas, Design, Everyday

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• Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

  Charles Stross

  Motivation, Joy, Destroying

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.24, Penguin

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• Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out that the patterns may never be finished. They're open-ended. In standard science this hit some things that most scientists have a negative reaction to. Science doesn't like perpetual novelty.

  W. Brian Arthur

  Important, Negative, Asking

  "Coming from Your Inner Self". www.presencing.org. April 16, 1999.

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• Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

  St. Jerome

  Religious, Giving, Birth

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• The religion of the corporate world is novelty. What is new is always right.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, World, Corporate

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.28, Vintage

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• We live of novelty in science, so whenever you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that this cannot be done, that it is not interesting and so on.

  Heinrich Rohrer

  Interesting, Overcoming, Done

  Interview with Adam Smith, www.nobelprize.org. April 9, 2008.

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• At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation of precepts already collected, and assertion of tenets already received; nothing is henceforward so odious as opposition, so insolent as doubt, or so dangerous as novelty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Doubt, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (2003). “Selected Essays”, p.380, Penguin UK

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• The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films.

  Arin Paul

  Hype, Giving, Needs

  "Tolly-ho! on The Telegraph, Calcutta". telegraphindia.com, 2008.

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• It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Unique, Civilization, Creating

  Barbara De Angelis (1995). “Real Moments”, Dell

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• Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Change, Entertainment, Positive Experiences

  Mary Catherine Bateson (1985). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, Pocket Books

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• I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

  Nigella Lawson

  Food, Thinking, Cooking

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• Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Art, Struggle, Science

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.87, Springer Science & Business Media

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• We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Reading, Hands, Ideas

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• sight-seeing gratifies us in different ways. First, there is the pleasure of novelty; secondly, either that of admiration or fault-finding - the latter a very animated enjoyment.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Travel, Sight, Different

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.233

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• The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Discovery, Missing, Usual

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• Turns out that people who try new things, go new places, learn new skills, etc. are happier. This can be tough, because novelty and challenge also bring frustration and irritation - but if you can push through that, novelty and challenge can bring enormous happiness rewards.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Frustration, Irritation, Skills

  "Slate Discussion: The Happiness Project". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 15, 2009.

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• The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.

  George Leonard

  Order, Long, Scarcity

  George Leonard (2009). “The Silent Pulse”, p.139, Gibbs Smith

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