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“I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live.”

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Author:Taslima Nasrin

“There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what preceded it: to be original, an artist must also belong to the tradition from which he departs. To put it another way, he must violate the expectations of his audience, but he must also, in countless ways, uphold and endorse them.”

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Author:Roger Scruton

“Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.”

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Author:Mason Cooley

“Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.”

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Author:Brad Henry

“We need more math classes, we need more science. It's the art of math and the art of science that creates all the innovation, and we have a tradition of great arts, great music.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.”

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Author:Barbara Jordan

“I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how to do true rhymes, because that's the tradition of it, but I do think that in order for the art form to grow, it's important to not let tradition get in the way of innovation. There's all kinds of reasons not to use true rhyme in a lyric, like with off-color humor.”

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Author:Robert Lopez

“But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.”

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Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to family values are at the center of every politician’s discourse. And yet the culture of America is extremely corrosive of family life, indeed of all traditions except those redefined as “identities” that fit in the larger patterns of distinctiveness, cooperation, and openness to innovation.”

Source: Susan Sontag: Ansprachen aus Anlass der Verleihung

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

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Book:The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959

Source: The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959

“This is about putting education absolutely in the centre of enterprise and then using the traditions of Birmingham to inspire and grow. If you have knowledge and business linked together you will grow well, you go further down the innovative path and actually you create more and more jobs. Those jobs will only be available for people with skills but they will be real sustainable employments. That is how important innovation is.”

“The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured up out of thin air. The vast majority of coinages are the product of some kind of repurposing, and the result has always been a mix of tradition and innovation.”

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Author:Susie Dent

“Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.”

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Author:Satya Nadella

“Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.”

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Author:Jill Lepore

“Tradition is a challenge to innovation.”

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Author:Alvaro Siza Vieira

“Our hope is to support projects that promote the personal and educational development of young people through creative programs that embrace innovation while celebrating rich traditions and cultural exchange”

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Author:Elisa Sednaoui

“Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.”

Today Tomorrow Tradition Innovation

Author:Lidia Bastianich

“Keeping knowledge from others for self-preservation is an ancient and evil practice.Truth, trust and transparency have always been the most dangerous anti-tradition. The hardest part about innovation and change is rarely unconventional, it’s that conventional people have built walls that they protect with war-like tactics. Progress is the product of openness, not shallowness.”

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Author:Richie Norton

“There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.”

“Suits and boots are not sentience, Manners and etiquettes are not culture. Intellect and technology are not progress, Faith and tradition are not character.”

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Book:Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth