Tradition Quotes (page 2)

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• past
• look
• photography

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it. Julian Schnabel

• mind
• mindfulness
• our

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. Jiddu Krishnamurti

• delivering
• stocking
• traditional

Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store. Calvin Klein

• busy
• die
• new

Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums. Kerry King

• science
• traditions
• traditional

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts. Rudy Rucker

• work
• character
• wind

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens. Alex Kapranos

• home
• bonding
• rich

Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes. Bo Bennett

• creativity
• being
• buts

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

• dead
• demands
• traditions

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. Daniel Barenboim

• traditional
• illusions
• traditions

Tradition is the illusion of permanance. Woody Allen

• art
• leaving
• look

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. Josef Albers

• tired
• poetry
• new

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. Lascelles Abercrombie

• arrogant
• walking
• humanity

I have never been able to understand where people got the idea that democracy was in some way opposed to tradition. It is obvious that tradition is only democracy extended through time. It is trusting to a consensus of common human voices rather than to some isolated or arbitrary record. . . . Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely... Gilbert K. Chesterton

• feeling
• guilty
• love

Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that the very tradition to which they are so loyal—the "eternal" tradition introduced to them in their youth—is in fact the evolved product of many adjustments firmly but delicately made by earlier lovers of the same tradition. Daniel Dennett

• family
• value
• oppressed

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition. James Hillman