Newness Quotes

… embrace new ideas with energy!

The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions.

My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

The dogmas of the quite past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating.

What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.

It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

We didn't invent anything new. Hospitality has been around forever.

Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.

Change terrifies people. They like new, but they don't like new with change.

Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other.

A wise king must do less in altering his laws than he may; for new government is ever dangerous …

Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

Novelty in all things is charming.

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

Art always demands of us something new.

I don't like the same old thing all the time.

I want people to say that I'm something new, something different. Something they've never seen before.