Zitat des Tages über Vertrautheit / Familiarity:
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
I have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.
This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.
Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.
Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.
She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
The i730 combines the familiarity of Windows Mobile software with the innovative design of Samsung that will be a popular choice for mobile professionals.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.
Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Fabulous is familiarity.
I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to it and a familiarity to the relationship because you're having to let go of all your barriers so you can let people in and work with them.
I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.
In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!'
'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.
It really, truly is sad when it's over, man. To not have that regularness, that familiarity. I love working in television because of that. It's like going to see your family every day.
I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.
You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.
People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.
