Deep, Inspirational Quotes about "Newness"

"Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things."

--- Agnes Repplier

#Committed #Innovation #Illuminating

"But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called."

--- Agnes Smedley

#Lost #Color #Adventure

"When held up to the window pane, What fixed my baby stare? The glory of the glittering rain, And newness everywhere."

--- Alfred Austin

#Glory #Baby #Window

"I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama."

--- Allan Stratton

#Writing #Reader #Life Is

"From it's inception Beat poetry was hailed as "something NEW" and "like all good spontaneous jazz, newness is acceptable and expected - by hip people who listen." But the newness of jazz has in it the echoes of J. S. Bach."

--- Allen Ginsberg

#People #Expected #Beats

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."

--- Andre Gide

#Courage #Consent #Entrepreneur

"I've literally opened it up to suggestions and it's totally chaotic and kind of a bad idea. You don't need the actual feedback to get a sense. When you're showing a song for the first time, people can feel that newness."

--- Andrew Bird

#People #Feels #Firsts

"As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its beautiful and grotesque forms and events -- in terms of the import to thought and their impetus to the spirit. In nature I find grace tangled in a rapture with violence; I find an intricate landscape whose forms are fringed in death; I find mystery, newness, and a kind of exuberant, spendthrift energy."

--- Annie Dillard

#Newness #Facts #Term

"Newness inspires me. New opportunities. New places. New experiences. Learning new things, new skills. New roles!"

--- Annie Wersching

#Opportunity #Roles #Inspire

"My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by the newness of meaninglessness, relentless in our search for something even the most perceptive of us could not identify."

--- Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#Ifs #Social #Relentless

"As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open... Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity."

--- Yehuda Berg

#Thinking #Children #Heart

"Had He not emerged from the tomb all our hopes, all our salvation would be lying dead with Him unto this day. But as we see Him issue from the grave we see ourselves issue with Him in newness of life. Now we know that His shoulders were strong enough to bear the burden that was laid upon them, and that He is able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God through Him. The resurrection of Christ is thus the indispensable evidence of His completed work, His accomplished redemption."

--- B. B. Warfield

#Tombs #Newness #Completed Work

"The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out."

--- B. H. Liddell Hart

#Ideas #Mind #Open Minded

"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

#People #Done #Way

"The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring."

--- William Ralph Inge

#Feels #Men #Loses

"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."

--- Ben Jonson

#Style #Years #Language

"A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of psychological states; it may be a nostalgic glance backward; it may be any one of an infinite number of concepts, none of which may have any possible bearing upon its degree of newness."

--- Ben Shahn

#Study #May #Concepts

"The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity)."

--- William F. Buckley, Jr.

#Wells #Nations #Combat

"New things are always ugly."

--- Willa Cather

#Ugly #New Things #Newness

"The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness."

--- Wasif Ali Wasif

#World #Ancient #Lost

"What counts, I found, is not what you cover, but what you uncover. Covering subjects in a class can be a boring exercise, and students feel it. Uncovering the laws of physics and making them see through the equations, on the other hand, demonstrates the process of discovery, with all its newness and excitement, and students love being part of it."

--- Walter Lewin

#Feels #Hands #Boring

"Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere."

--- Virgil

#Force #Security #Kingdoms

"Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one."

--- Vernon Lee

#Made #Trouble #Use

"What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?"

--- Brian Ferneyhough

#Years #Intense #Quality

"Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion."

--- Tom Ford

#Fashion #Shocking #Elements

"I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, ‘Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don’t.’ I’m not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness."

--- Carl Honore

#Thinking #Looks #Stuff

"Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components."

--- Carl Jung

#Wells #Individual #Age

"The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change men’s lives. As he said to the dead Lazarus, so he says to you and me: “come forth.” Come forth from the despair of doubt. Come forth from the sorrow of sin. Come forth from the death of disbelief. Come forth to a newness of life. Come forth."

--- Thomas S. Monson

#Men #Said #Doubt

"Let me begin now, this very night, to emulate Christ. Cast off forever will be the old self and with it defeat, despair, doubt, and disbelief. To a newness of life I come--a life of faith, hope courage, and joy. No task looms too large; no responsibility too heavy; no duty is a burden. All things become possible."

--- Thomas S. Monson

#Hope Courage #Newness Of Life #Self

"When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash - at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance."

--- Thomas Merton

#Glimpse #Grove #Awakened

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