Daniel Webster Quotes

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.

The world is for newness, not for oldness. New, new things we have to create. Then only the world will progress. If not, we will come to feel that there is nothing new under the sun. We have to create new things to keep our joy. If there is no newness, how can we have enthusiasm? And if there is no enthusiasm, do we make any progress?

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

Nothing I've done is like anything else I've done before.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

Whatever worked in the past, build on it; whatever didn't work in the past, break the chain that binds you to it.

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

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

Ah, in every age there is always some new wonder to astound mankind until they grow accustomed to it and lose interest.

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.