Tradition Quotes · Page 13

I'm a scientist. We don't talk about the spirit. Soul is a four letter word in our tradition.

— Candace Pert

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

— Josef Albers

India is a conglomeration of different states with various languages, tradition, and culture for each.

— Vetrimaaran

Obviously the Knicks have so much history and tradition, so to be a part of that is obviously a blessing for sure.

— Julius Randle

In some sense, I'm a romantic. I like the idea of organic history and tradition.

— Rory Stewart

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

— Jeff Goldblum

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Tradition is never said to be “God-breathed”[6] and is never exalted to a place of equality with (or supremacy over) the Scriptures.”

— James Robert White

Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private…

— Rob McKenna

In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes…

— Tomas Maier

Comcast began their tradition of volunteer service in 1997 when Comcast employees and their families participated in the Philadelphia Cares Day.

— Jim Gerlach

[Bob] Dylan thus deserves the Nobel Prize, not just for "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," as the Nobel…

— Jay Michaelson

I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the…

— Philip Kitcher

With respect to the respective French and German traditions you are no doubt correct, although I am reluctant to see individual achievement…

— Brian Ferneyhough

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does…

— Al Pacino

[Greek] Theater started off and used masks and Kabuki, in the East, they used mask-work. And then, Commedia dell'arte in Italy and…

— Andy Serkis

Reading Gypsy Boy, I felt invited into a secret society. I've always found Gypsies mysterious and even slightly dangerous, and Mikey Walsh…

— Julia Scheeres

Most of my formal choices are a combination of everything I learned about form - semiotics, linguistics, and the history of style…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't…

— Joyce Meyer

It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or…

— Willa Cather

Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is a Constitution that morphs while you look at it like Plasticman… That is contrary to our whole tradition, to in…

— Antonin Scalia

I've always been interested in photographing traditions and customs - especially in America. The prom is an American tradition, a rite of…

— Mary Ellen Mark

Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and…

— Lawren Harris

Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was…

— Mary H.K. Choi

People love the traditional pantomimes and I don't think we need to disregard that tradition.

— Clive Rowe

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a…

— Nhat Hanh

I don't want to make films that are constantly pleasing the audience, it is not my tradition.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

— Martin E. Marty

I started writing music as a composer in school, in the classical tradition.

— Julia Holter

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

— Todd Haynes

I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.

— David Millar

Just to be a part of that Laker tradition is really a dream come true.

— Brook Lopez

It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.

— Barbra Streisand

It's a tradition in Islamic society to issue pardons at the end of Ramadan.

— Hooman Majd

“A man in a kilt carries his heritage on his hips and courage in his heart.”

— Haider Ali Bajwa

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

— Deepak Chopra

Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth.

— Giuseppe Mazzini

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

— Noam Chomsky

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

— Louis de Bernieres