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• I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new!

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Thinking, Doors, Threshold

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• I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

  E. O. Wilson

  Writing, Careers, Ideas

  "EO Wilson: Our Greatest Biologist Writes A Novel, ‘Anthill’ (INTERVIEW, EXCERPT)". Interview with Steve Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

  Steven Wright

  Thinking, Trying Something New, Creating

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• My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can find something new to science, and if it's truly novel, the entire edifice of science might have to be restructured.

  Greg Graffin

  Teacher, Class, Might

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• The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which happiness has silenced like an idle harp, wants to resonate under some hand, even a rough one, and even if it might be broken by it.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspiration, Hands, Broken

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• That's the way it is in life. You let go of what is beautiful and unique. You pursue something new and don't even know that the wind of your own running is a thief.

  Sena Jeter Naslund

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Running

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• You learn something new everyday." "What are you learning?" Sophos asked. "To keep my mouth shut, I hope.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Everyday, Mouths

  Megan Whalen Turner (2017). “World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves”, p.46, HarperCollins

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• Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.

  Stephen Dunn

  Done, Originality, Arise

  Stephen Dunn (2001). “Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry”, p.2, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.

  Atul Gawande

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and "fruitfulness" is drawn in.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Thinking, Names, Grace

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.116, Dial Press

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• Being clever was when you looked at how things were and used the evidence to work out something new.

  Mark Haddon

  Clever, Work Out, Used

  "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time". Book by Mark Haddon, May, 2003.

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• Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

  Orson Scott Card

  Loyalty, Together, Inexplicable

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.79, Macmillan

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• If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.

  Alan Alda

  Creativity, Knows, Known

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• When you give of yourself something new comes in to being... the world expands, a bit of goodness is brought forth and a small miracle occurs. You must never underestimate this miracle. Too many good people think they have to become Mother Teresa or Albert Schweitzer, or even Santa Claus, and perform great acts if they are to be givers. They don't see the simple openings of the heart that can be practiced anywhere with almost anyone.

  Kent Nerburn

  Mother, Heart, Simple

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.75, New World Library

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• In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Book, Reading, Storm

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• There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Past, Longing, Eternal

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• Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.

  Ambeth R. Ocampo

  Looks, Way, Facts

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• And the distinction between violent and non-violent action is that the former is exclusively bent upon the destruction of the old, and the latter is chiefly concerned with the establishment of something new.

  Hannah Arendt

  Action, Violent, Destruction

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• Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible.

  Robert Jordan

  Optimistic, Sometimes, Horrible

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.235, Macmillan

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• I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by the middle of the first sentence and it all went downhill from there. The only thing I can remember learning is that a parallel universe can theoretically be contained on the head of a needle. I don't really know what that means, but I am now more careful handling needles.

  Stephan Pastis

  Confused, Book, Mean

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• Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest discoveries of science have been but the rewards of accurate measurement and patient long-continued labour in the minute sifting of numerical results.

  Lord Kelvin

  Hard Work, Science, Discovery

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• There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

  Picabo Street

  Sports, Morning, Psychology

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• If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Future, Adventure

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• You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

  Tadao Ando

  Thinking, Land, Use

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