Jenny Han Quotes

When you're given something new, it's always exciting 'cause you're the first one to do it. You're not having to live up to any expectations, or be compared to anyone who's ever done it before.

There's only one spot in history for the first ever of anything.

Nobody really invents anything that hasn't been done before.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

What I have done here no one has done before.

Nobody's interested in something that could've been done before.

The most valuable thing in culture is to find something first - so everyone is always looking.

You have to push the boundary, do something that people haven't seen before, because then it is exciting for them.

There's no-one in particular that we look up to, because we strive to be something that's never gone before.

I love that sense of discovery. You're experiencing something for the first time, and your parents aren't in on it, previous generations aren't in on it. It has a chance to belong to you and your generation in a way that nothing has. If 'Pacific Rim' is a fraction of that, I would be very proud.

When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.

I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

You have to be different, great or first.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

It is only by doing things others have not that one can advance.

Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful.

The common thread in all of my climbing is it was something new, something never done before. That commonality is more important than the discipline.

It's always about trying to do something that's different and not repeating yourself because then you lose your creative stamina. You need to have new challenges.