Unfamiliar Quotes - Page 9

• It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’­—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Jobs, Dark, Artist

  Rebecca Solnit (2006). “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”, p.8, Penguin

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• Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we speak, and look the way we look. We fear leaving those familiar surroundings, which is natural, but through exploration of the unfamiliar we stop focusing on the labels that define WHAT we are and discover WHO we are.

  Adam Braun

  People, Leaving, Who We Are

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• Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.

  Peter D. Mitchell

  Lonely, Views, Appreciate

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• Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.

  Bill Courtney

  Self, Entering, World

  Bill Courtney (2014). “Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love”, p.29, Weinstein Publishing

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• There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

  George Santayana

  Humor, Growth, Mind

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• But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

  Derek Bailey

  Player, Methodology, Adapted

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• Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice

  Beryl Markham

  Land, Voice, Fundamentals

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.302, Open Road Media

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• Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that we are used to do not bother us, and for that reason we are inclined to call them beautiful. Frequently, when a new or unfamiliar work is accepted as beautiful on its first hearing, its fundamental quality is one that tends to put the mind to sleep.

  Charles Ives

  Beautiful, Confused, Lying

  Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.125, 1st World Publishing

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• We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Hate, Believe, Thinking

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• Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup

  Michael Pollan

  Corn Syrup, Numbers, Ingredients

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.102, Penguin

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• Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.

  Martin Buber

  Bible, Christian, Attitude

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• I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Years

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.311, Courier Corporation

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• A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.

  Andrew Bird

  Sight, Cities, Creative

  "Andrew Bird Talks ‘Break It Yourself,’ And His Obsession With Maps". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.

  Julius Caesar

  Obscurity, Unusual, Reefs

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• Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Change, Imagination, Chance

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• Travel opens different eyes to different things, shows things we've never seen before, shows the world from entirely different angles. That's the power of drawing and the power of travel. They both make the familiar unfamiliar and vice versa. They show what we all have in common and what we may have missed thanks to preconceptions that may have marred our vision.

  Danny Gregory

  Eye, Drawing, Vision

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• I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

  Tablo

  Sadness, Familiar

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• Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon... I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.

  Rich Mullins

  Brother, Character, Moon

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• The general notions about human understanding...which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture, they have a history, and in Buddhist and Hindu thought a more considerable and central place. What we shall find is an exemplification, an encouragement, and a refinement of old wisdom.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Encouragement, Buddhist, Discovery

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• Most people unfamiliar with the men in a new town might search for love until they find it. I picked out some guy on my second day in LA, who worked at the local bicycle shop, and handed my virginity to him. “You can fill a tire? Sounds good to me. Let's call it a date.” Needless to say he wasn't Mr. Right.

  Kathy Griffin

  Men, Mr Right, People

  Kathy Griffin (2009). “Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• The house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to cozy them down. Objects that swore at each other when the movers heaved them into the new rooms have subsided into corners and sit to lick their feet and wash their faces like cats accepting a new home.

  Emily Carr

  Home, Cat, Feet

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• When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Talking, Doe, Want

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

  Fay Weldon

  Life, Blessed, Fate

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• Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the courage to become a resource in unfamiliar areas of knowledge and in ones for which one has no taste. But parents, no less than teachers, must respect a child's mind and not exploit it for their own vanity or ambition, or to soothe their own anxiety.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Teacher, Children, Ambition

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• You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

  Shanola Hampton

  Different, Complaining, World

  "5 Questions w/ 'Shameless' Star Shanola Hampton". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. January 10, 2013.

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