You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment.

I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

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.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

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.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

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.

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.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand.

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

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.

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

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.

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.

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.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

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.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

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 breeds contempt.

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.

Fabulous is familiarity.

When you write about esoteric things it can be way out there.

On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.

William Shakespeare was a brilliant writer and he only wrote the truth. So, if I don't believe it, I have to work really hard to see what that truth is so that I do; that's the only way I can make it believable for the audience.

I don't look at 'Vogue' to ask what I'm going to wear. Because it's something on a body too young. I have to look at the social pages to see women my age. To see how Amanda Burden is dressed and say, 'Hmmm. Maybe I should try that.'

I'll live a lush life in some small dive.

Drawing a good picture is like telling a really good lie - the key is in the incidental detail.

I remember the feeling of a tweed Chanel jacket because my mom used to wear one to work.

What I enjoy so much about the Tonys' uniqueness is that anyone who's tuning in has an interest in seeing the show, so our job is halfway done.

I think there has only been one time in my entire career that I've ever gone back to shoot a scene. And it was a scene that, when we were shooting it, we knew that it wasn't working. We knew there was a disagreement between the actor and director. So, we went back.

Everything is lovely when the geese honk high.