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“Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.”

Feels Enough Novel Design Familiar Unfamiliar Instill

Author:John Maeda

“Say goodbye to a world where you cannot breathe/ To hiding behind unfamiliar skin/ To singing songs never knowing what they mean/ Now this is the way it was meant to be/ Be still and listen to the rising and falling/ Knowledge is power and I never knew me till now.”

World Way Mean Stills Song Fall Behinds Knowing Singing Skins Breathe Rising Goodbye Meant To Be Hiding Saying Goodbye Unfamiliar Were Meant To Be Knowledge Is Power Singing Songs

Author:Michelle Malone

“I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical.”

Should News Expectations Musical Hearing Tone Vocal Unfamiliar

Author:Colin Firth

“I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.”

Ifs Knows Believe Stills Feelings Values Class Losing Working Class Unfamiliar I Still Believe Losing Everything

Author:John Travolta

“May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while you're still half-asleep. May you spray-paint Rilke poems as graffiti on highway overpasses... My you learn to identify by name 20 flowers, 15 trees, 10 clouds, and one extrasolar planet... May you dream of taking a trip to the moon in a gondola powered by firecrackers and wild swans.”

“The chief virtue that language can have is clarity.”

Writing Language Virtue Clarity Chiefs Editing Unfamiliar Clearness Written Language Plain Language

Author:Hippocrates

“Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.”

Hard Music Is Unfamiliar

Author:Kenny Werner

“There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.”

Easy Difficult Familiar Unfamiliar

Author:Kenny Werner

“Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.”

Acceptance Ready Tradition Contrary Unfamiliar Unfamiliar Territory

Book:Ordeal by Battle

Source: Ordeal by Battle

“By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary. If wilderness can do this - if it can help us perceive and respect a nature we had forgotten to recognize as natural - then it will become part of the solution to our environmental dilemmas rather than part of the problem.”

Ifs Firsts Helping Problem Can Do Natural Seeing Solutions Ordinary Environmental Forgotten Perceive Wilderness Our Environment Dilemma Unfamiliar Otherness

Author:William Cronon

“Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a blizzard, a tornado, a lightning strike, an unfamiliar breeze, a strange tingling on the neck - without immediately invoking the climate crisis. It causes earthquakes, plagues and backyard gardening disappointments. Weird fungus on your tomato plants? Classic sign of global warming.”

“There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.”

Law Language Worst Masters Ears Command Aliens Monstrous Unfamiliar

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.”

Lost Cities Understood Quarters Unfamiliar

Author:Italo Calvino

“Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far, far away-what you last met at home.”

Heart Ends Home Lasts Journey Mets Travel Meetings Familiar Shakes Far Away Unfamiliar End Of Journey

Book:The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel

Source: The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel

“Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.”

Knows Needs Feels Sometimes Term Tired Poetic Sensitivity Precise Exquisite Unfamiliar Nuance Readership

Author:William Safire

“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.”

Knows Years Helping Funny Listening Humorous Opera Agony Unfamiliar Fourteen

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“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.”

I Can Shows Sound Cities Situation Creative Imagine Walking Sight Killing Hearing Agendas Unfamiliar Fertile Days Off Time To Kill Sight And Sound

Author:Andrew Bird

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