“Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.” PeopleOrdinaryDelightProgrammingNoveltySoftware DesignGaudy Author:Erik Naggum
“It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable.” PeopleIdeasFactsPersonalityHigherSafeDiversityMajorsLowsFamiliarVarietyOpennessTraitsNew IdeasCraveNoveltyDependablePersonality Traits Author:Jonathan Haidt
“The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.” WritingIdeasWholeCreativeProgramUniversityFrancePhenomenonCreative WritingNoveltyOddities Author:Marilyn Hacker
“I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.” ThinkingWellsKindChildrenRunningKidsSchoolParentBornTakenChangedLuckyFedsWornNoveltyGauntlet Author:Owen Hart
“Playing a prisoner of war trapped in Pakistan for three years was a novelty for me. We made sure that we didn't talk about India versus Pakistan but about the emotions of people on both sides and how terrorism affects us all.” PeopleYearsMadeWarThreeSidesEmotionIndiaTerrorismPrisonerThree YearsTrappedBoth SidesPakistanVersusNoveltyPrisoner Of War Author:Akshay Kumar
“Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition it was humiliating, because it put you at a disadvantage, it gave the love object too much power. As for sex per se, it lacked both challenge and novelty, and was on the whole a deeply imperfect solution to the problem of intergenerational genetic transfer.” RealStatesWholeProblemBodyFallSexChallengesToo MuchObjectsSolutionsFalling In LoveChemistryImperfectNoveltyAlteredTransfersDisadvantagesHumiliatingDelusionalToo Much PowerBody Chemistry Book:Oryx And Crake Source: Oryx And Crake