Something New Quotes - Page 36

• And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

  Norton Juster

  World, Phantom Tollbooth, Whole

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.190, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time.

  Hilary Mantel

  Book, Writing, People

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• But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn't be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil.

  Robin Sloan

  Learning Something New, Long, Evil

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Got something new , maybe it'll work before the end of the day if that's ok .

  Dr. Seuss

  The End Of The Day, Ends, Ifs

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• Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.

  Paulo Coelho

  Needs, Fantastic, Unbelievable

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• Once the storm comes out, the landscape changes. What you had before is altered in some way. And you have a choice: build something new and better from what is left or abandon it.

  David Levithan

  Choices, Storm, Landscape

  David Levithan (2012). “Six Earlier Days”, p.26, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon to a fire balloon: do you prefer crash and burn, or burn and crash? But sometimes it works, and something new is made, and the world is changed. Then, at some point, sooner or later, for this reason or that, one of them is taken away. and what is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. this may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

  Julian Barnes

  Taken, Fire, Two

  Julian Barnes (2013). “Levels of Life”, p.67, Random House

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• He who is too well off is always longing for something new.

  Jacob Grimm

  Longing, Grimm, Wells

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (2014). “Grimm's Fairy Tales: Complete and illustrated - 211 Tales”, p.106, Ageless Reads

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• He'd made sure i had something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.

  Abbi Glines

  Blue, Made, Borrowed

  Abbi Glines (2014). “The Fallen Too Far Trilogy: Includes Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far and Forever Too Far”, p.447, Simon and Schuster

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• There is always something new to learn about the person you love.

  David Levithan

  Persons

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.25, Egmont UK

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• I love re-creating myself. Change means you get to choose again. Become something new. -Dani

  Karen Marie Moning

  Mean, Creating

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• While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dream, Night, Pausing

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.196, Scholastic Inc.

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• Change to me is like an old friend. It's not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new.

  Phyllis George

  Inspirational, Old Friends, Enemy

  Phyllis George (2002). “Never Say Never: 10 Lessons to Turn You Can't Into Yes I Can”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Motivational, Trying Something New

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• The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

  Ivan Illich

  Teaching, Learning, Advancement

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Motivational, Learning, Students

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• Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.

  Erroll Garner

  Music, Play, Jazz

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• People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Years, People

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• We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

  Saint Augustine

  Wisdom, Writing, Understanding

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• Thus, a vision of the whole gradually grew for me that was nourished by the various experiences and realizations I had encountered along my theological path. I rejoiced to be able to say something of my own, something new and yet completely within the faith of the Church. The feeling of aquiring a theological vision that was ever more clearly my own was the most wonderful experience of those years.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Years, Feelings, Vision

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• Spirituality is revival of our God consciousness, not creating something new.

  Radhanath Swami

  Creating, Spirituality, Consciousness

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• Think of something new you’ve actually learned in the past week; if you can’t think of anything, get comfortable where you’re at because you’re not going anywhere. To stop learning is to stop living.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Past, Thinking, Week

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Apr 15, 2014

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• What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

  Cheech Marin

  Art, Emotional, Intellectual

  "Cheech And Chong Reunite, At Long Last". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 28, 2010.

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• To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Life, Philosophical

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  To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

  Nicolas Cage

  Acting, Criminals, Actors

  "Out There with Nicholas Cage". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. May 1, 1996.

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