Best 530 quotes in «tradition quotes» category

The British tradition, basically, is to go to the character. And the Hollywood tradition, shall we say, is basically to take the character to the performer.

The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances.

The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions, and we should go deeper into our own traditions rather than just acquiring the surfaces of others.

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.

The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.

The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

The guru is a tremendous tradition because is a guide, it's a guide to life, and we can guide energetically, we can guide in our thought, we can have a prayer that travels wonderful things.

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition.

The image of the bank robber I had in mind was more in the European tradition where you'd rob banks and give to the poor, like Robin Hood. It was that mythology. But very early on, my whole preoccupation was with art-studying it, examining every piece of work.

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

The most authentic and hallowed Wiccan tradition is stealing from any source that didn't run away too fast

The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way after everyone has ceased to defer to it. The way to revive it is to show that it has grown out of and is still related to our most cherished values. But this requires radical insight and the stripping away of many things which are mere accretions.

The music in the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody] is very much hand-picked specifically because it's our history and our traditions. The themes are universal.

The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music...

The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and Expressionism will probably dominate for some time to come the tradition of Cezanne and Cubism.

The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

The numerous ecstatic traditions - including free jazz and funk - have all been great inspirations.

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

The one thing I've said to [Donald Trump] directly, and I would advise my Republican friends in Congress and supporters around the country, is just make sure that, as we go forward certain norms, certain institutional traditions don't get eroded, because there's a reason they're in place.

The Peacekeepers had a tradition that every problem had a solution. It was a nice slogan. Wasn't true, but it sounded good.

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.

There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.

There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia.

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography.

The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine a scenario where we consume a ton with individuals who pester the heck out of us.

The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.

These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians. They came from this tradition, so it's a good place to look. It's like prospecting: You gotta know where to look.

The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.

The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with.

The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.

The vast majority of Muslims would never accept the lawfulness of an active homosexual lifestyle. I don't see that happening. But there is also no authority in the tradition for any individual to take things into his own hands and impose their version of the religion on someone else.

The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.