“You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are the end of music. We are the end of this tradition. Music is done."” ThinkingEndsDoneRoomsCenturyMusic IsSittingTraditionComposer20th CenturyLiving RoomSitting AroundViennaClassical ComposersSchoenbergWebern Author:David Longstreth
“I wanted wherever possible to lean into the comic form and do things in the story telling that could only be done in comics and which pay homage to the many strands of comic and visual storytelling tradition.” DoneStoriesWantedFormPayTraditionStorytellingComicVisualsHomageStrandsVisual Storytelling Author:Arvind Ethan David
“There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come.” HumansReligiousHuman BeingsViewsCreationTraditionParticipantsReligious TraditionsJewish Tradition Author:Michael Sandel
“It's true that to speak of an ethic of giftedness, which is very much the ethic that I deploy in raising questions about designer children and genetic engineering - an appreciation of the giftedness of the child or the giftedness of life does have religious resonance, because a great many religious traditions emphasize the sense in which the good things in life are not all our own doing; they are gifts from God.” ChildrenDoeSpeakReligiousEthicsTraditionGood ThingsAppreciationDesignerGreat MenEngineeringThings In LifeGift From GodResonanceReligious TraditionsGenetic EngineeringGiftednessGood Things In Life Author:Michael Sandel
“I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can from childhood, but I am not an expert on Jewish teachings.” I CanTeachingChildhoodTraditionBackgroundsExpertsBroadsScholarlyJewish Tradition Author:Michael Sandel
“It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church.” HumansDoeDifferentChurchViewsMoralPositionTraditionCatholicHuman LifeCatholic ChurchMandatesEmbryosPersonhoodDevelopmentalJewish Tradition Author:Michael Sandel
“Just as some of the most ardent political ideologues in the West are young people, revolutionaries, the '60s generation, - in Islam some of the most religious people are the youngsters. But more important than that, the prophet - in his writings, in his traditions - and the Koran itself say that the Muslim youth are the ones whom the future depends on and that it's up to them to do the fighting.” PeopleWritingImportantYoungPoliticalFightingReligiousGenerationsYouthDependsTraditionWestIslamRevolutionaryProphetYoungstersArdentIdeologues Author:Michael Scheuer
“The tradition piece is so embedded in me I don't know that I can see it any more, but the community piece is one I've been in danger of losing.” KnowsI CanCommunityPiecesDangerLosingTraditionEmbedded Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.” KnowsWayRealCharacterChristianValuesMemoriesTraditionFlavorHistory And Memory Author:Barbara Brown Taylor
“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.” KnowsReasonChurchTraditionPlusPreaching Author:Frederick Buechner
“If there is a central theme to what I called "a peaceful warrior's approach to living," and to The Four Purposes of Life, it is that there may be innumerable techniques or methods one can learn (from the Eastern spiritual cultures and from the Western psychological tradition), but that above and beyond all these technologies waits the school of everyday life.” IfsMaySchoolSpiritualPurposeCultureWaitingTechnologyFourApproachTraditionMethodWesternEverydayTechniquePsychologicalPeacefulWarriorThemePurpose Of LifeEveryday LifeEasternAbove And BeyondPeaceful Warrior Author:Dan Millman
“While there are so many beautiful Baroque churches and it's a beautiful artistic tradition, it almost gets hideous and grotesque if you push it further. You can take something beautiful and overdo it.” IfsBeautifulChurchTraditionArtisticHideousGrotesqueSomething BeautifulBaroqueBeautiful Art Author:Win Butler
“Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury something and Miss Havisham refuses, as it were, to bury the corpse). Like Hamlet, she's focused on what everyone would rather not know or would like to forget, and she seems crazy / stuck as well as bitter, but she's also a perfect prototype of a performance artist. She's intentionally hard to deal with inviting the audience to remain with the violated body, the evidence of violence.” KnowsWellsImportantHardBodySeemsArtistFightingPerfectForgetDealsAudienceViolenceCrazyMissingFiguresEvidenceTraditionPerformancesRefuseFocusedStuckSignificantBitterFeminineCorpsesInvitingPrototypeAntigoneHavishamMiss Havisham Author:Laura Mullen
“By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the highest wages and highest living standard, and probably the most engagement between the populace and the government of any country. Then the United States took those same qualities to the nth degree, and the British were suddenly appeared stodgy and tradition-bound.” CountryStatesGovernmentChallengesUnitedQualityUnited StatesCenturyWillingDegreesAuthorityHighestStandardsTraditionBoundsBritishBritainEngagementWagesGreat Britain18th Century Author:Charles R. Morris
“So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very kind of staid perspective. Again, there are charismatic white congregations all over, and they don't sing that way. But, you know, on the average.” KnowsWayMindKindBodyWhitePerspectiveEuropeTraditionAverageCongregationCharismatic Author:Michael Emerson
“And different traditions stress different - so then there's that. I talked to an African American who says before she goes into an interracial church, she sits in her car and she listens to gospel music to get her fill, and she goes into an interracial church where they don't do gospel music, and she's ready to accept the other sorts of ways of worshipping. So there's that.” WayDifferentChurchAcceptingCarReadyTraditionStressAfrican AmericanGospel Music Author:Michael Emerson
“I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's gonna keep the American people safe. And is what, what's gonna uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process.” PeopleI CanProcessTermSafeJudgmentTraditionConstitutionDuesDue Process Author:Barack Obama
“I just trust the people involved. Marvel and DC for the last 16 years - is that 90 percent of the time it's incredible top talent. Like, this is what makes it different from the pre-2000 superhero movies. I would say, except Tim Burton and Richard Donner, it was generally, comic book movies were done by guys who weren't that into the material and people who didn't really respect the stuff. But as everything, whether it's Wolverine, X-Men, Avengers, Batman, all these things, it's just been done by top-tier people. I have total confidence that they'll continue that tradition of being great.” PeopleMenYearsBookDifferentDoneLastsGuyStuffTalentMaterialsInvolvedPercentTraditionIncrediblesComicComic BookSuperheroX MenAvengers Author:Mark Millar
“I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment.” KnowsLittlesMomentsTraditionWhy NotYour MomExtravagantGownsReception Author:Austin Scarlett
“The fact that there are now many entities that may have some loose affiliation with a former core Al Qaeda - or who have decided to fashion themselves as an affiliate or follower in the Al Qaeda jihadist tradition - as well as groups that are just inspired by the concept that they could also be the perpetrators of mass killing, means that there is a spectrum of threats.” WellsMayMeanFactsGroupsFashionMassConceptsTraditionDecidedThreatInspiredKillingCoreFormerAlsFollowersEntitySpectrumAl QaedaPerpetratorsAffiliation Author:Graham T. Allison
“And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.” LongStageTraditionNobleEnteringParticipating Author:Edward Hirsch
“In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through the page to make a connection by the side of the road with some other person.” TryingKindPersonsCertainSidesPoetPagesTraditionConnectionsDesperateReach OutFriendlinessAmerican Tradition Author:Edward Hirsch
“Everybody grows up with comedy. I mean, Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing.” MeanGrowsGrowing UpComedyTraditionTheaterEgyptianOld Traditions Author:Bassem Youssef
“There is a complexity and layering that goes on with this kind of thing, so the music is slightly repetitive and when I say repetitive it's in the same tradition as people like Steve Reich or Erik Satie or even WC.” PeopleKindGoes OnMusic IsTraditionComplexityRepetitive Author:DJ Spooky
“The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system, it is not the destruction of civilization in a material sense. The revolution desired by the leaders is moral and spiritual, it is an anarchy of ideas in which all the bases established nineteen centuries ago shall be overthrown, all the honored traditions trodden under foot, and, above all, the Christian ideal finally obliterated.” WorldIdeasChristianSpiritualGoalLeaderMoralFeetEconomicCenturyMaterialsRevolutionCivilizationIdealsTraditionDestructionBasesFinalsJewSocialismCommunismAnarchyHonoredEconomic SystemsNineteen Author:Leon V. DePoncins
“"Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings."” BelieveSeemsTeacherSeriousTraditionDoctrineWelfareInvestigation Author:Jean Leloup
“Rather than trying to recover and maintain a tradition that links back to the past (and former glories), Chaos Magick is an approach that enables the individual to use anything that s/he thinks is suitable as a temporary belief or symbol system. What matters is the results you get, not the 'authenticity' of the system used. So Chaos Magic then, is not a system - it utilises systems and encourages adherents to devise their own, giving magic a truly Postmodernist flavour.” ThinkingGivingTryingMatterUsePastUsedIndividualBeliefResultsMagicApproachGloryTraditionChaosAuthenticitySymbolsFormerTemporaryLinksWhat MattersSuitableFlavour Author:Phil Hine
“The point to be grasped from the saintly tradition is that to love animals is not sentimentality (as we know it) but true spirituality. Of course there can be vain, self-seeking loving, but to go (sometimes literally) out of our way to help animals, to expend effort to secure their protection and to feel with them their suffering and to be moved by it-these are surely signs of spiritual greatness.” KnowsWayFeelsSelfSometimesHelpingSpiritualSufferingSpiritualityCoursesNatureAnimalEffortGreatnessTraditionMovedSeekingProtectionSecureVainSentimentalityAnimal Love Book:Christianity and the Rights of Animals Source: Christianity and the Rights of Animals
“I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the years. Although I'm not religious myself, it is so much a part of me. It's a part of my history, a part of my tradition and my culture, so I don't want to just throw it away and leave it behind, because it's made me who I am today.” WantYearsMadeTodayCultureReligiousBehindsGrewGrew UpTraditionAcceptedWho I AmLeaving MeReligious Family Author:Brendon Urie
“The point for me is people who are atheists or are coming from different religious traditions; they are coming from their own sources and specific roots. We should analyze these.” PeopleShouldDifferentReligiousSourceTraditionRootsAtheistReligious Traditions Author:Tariq Ramadan
“We always think from where we come from. We always think from the sources that shape our understanding. I think about the world through the lens of my Islamic tradition. I accept this but I must also have intellectual humility.” ThinkingWorldUnderstandingAcceptingHumilitySourceShapesIntellectualTraditionIslamicLensesWhere We ComeIntellectual Humility Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I look to Islamic ethics to find something that can provide the basis for shared values with other traditions, and ultimately universal values. This ties into the point I made in a book, 'The Quest for Meaning', that the only way for values to be universal is if they are shared universal values. My main point is, in this quest for value the aim is not to express your distinctness from others, but about being able to contribute to the discussion of universal value.” IfsWayLooksMadeBookAbleValuesEthicsTraditionUniversalBasesAimDiscussionTiesIslamicQuestsShared Values Author:Tariq Ramadan
“As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith or tradition in a more human direction. That's the thing I spend my time doing.” HumansChristianityTraditionTasksWesternSymbolsPrimariesMy Time Author:John Shelby Spong
“We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic thinking Greek world; that took us about 400 years. Then, finally a man named Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, recast Christianity in terms of neo-Platonic thought.” ThinkingMenWorldYearsTermBornChristianityTraditionGreekTranslateBishopsPlatonicAugustineHippoJewish Faith Author:John Shelby Spong
“The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning. It was the first time that the Christian church did not have the capacity to keep itself unified as it recast itself, so it split into Protestant and Catholic traditions.” FirstsChristianTermChurchCenturyEnlightenmentFirst TimeCapacityTraditionCatholicSplitsReformationProtestantsChristian FaithUnifiedChristian ChurchProtestant Reformation Author:John Shelby Spong
“It's the 21st century, and somebody has to rise from within this faith tradition and retranslate it for the post-modern world... The Earth is not the center of the universe, therefore, God is not a being who lives above the sky, who splits the Red Sea from time to time, or creates a miracle, or whatever.” WorldEarthUniverseSeaSkyModernCenturyRedTraditionMiraclePostsSplits21st CenturyModern WorldCenter Of The UniverseRed Sea Author:John Shelby Spong
“I know that Arnold Toynby, the great historian, said he had always hoped the religions of the world would evolve until they began to bring the very best of each tradition into one tradition. He hoped that Christianity would be the one religion that finally incorporated the values of Hinduism and Buddhism, and enriched itself with them.” KnowsWorldSaidWould BeValuesChristianityBuddhismTraditionEvolveHistorianHinduismHinduism And Buddhism Author:John Shelby Spong
“I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really operate outside of it. So looking for what this work is really about, if I look at Velázquez, if I look at Las Meninas or The Tapestry Weavers [1657] or something and really study it and try to figure out what that painting is really about, then I find relationships between what I'm trying to do and what he was doing.” IfsTryingLooksMeanArtFactsStudyFiguresPaintingArt IsTraditionJustificationTapestryArt HistoryWeavers Author:Robert Barry
“I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.” ThinkingPurposeTraditionRevive Author:James Hillman
“I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.” ThinkingFatherCenturyParticularGrewGrew UpTraditionHousehold Author:Andrew Solomon
“In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongering and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. That's how we all ended up here. 'Cause I guarantee you at some point every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. And yet here we are.” PeopleWantCareCausesDecisionTraditionBackgroundsImmigrationImpulseKicksWho We AreGuaranteesNovember Author:Barack Obama
“I have been able to watch the Clintons and The Clinton Foundation; Al Gore and what he did post-losing the whole Florida thing. There's a grand tradition of a lot of interesting stuff that happens to these post-presidents.” Has BeensWholeHappensAbleStuffPresidentInterestingWatchesLosingTraditionFoundationClintonPostsAlsFloridaGoreInteresting Stuff Author:David Mandel
“There's a grand tradition of a lot of interesting stuff that happens to these post-presidents. Especially in this day and age where you leave office in your 50s and you can live another 40 years, easily. That's a lot of time.” YearsHappensAgeStuffPresidentInterestingOfficeTraditionPostsThis DayInteresting Stuff Author:David Mandel
“I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States. Some journalists were real heroes, such as Bob Woodward who helped uncover the Watergate scandal. But today he is leading the opposite charge, trying to bring down the careers of people and score easy victories. In other words, those who used to bust the status quo have now become the status quo.” PeopleThinkingTryingRealStatesTodayUsedEasyUnitedCareersUnited StatesMediaHeroVictoryTraditionOppositesProfoundJournalismJournalistScoreBobStatus QuoScandalWatergateReal HeroesInvestigative Journalism Author:Marianne Williamson
“I understand that and I have had very candid discussions with Saudi leaders in the past. I respect their culture and their heritage and their traditions, but I think that they now, as they move forward, will have to start examining these traditions and these practices to see whether or not change is appropriate.” ThinkingPastMovingCultureLeaderPracticeTraditionMoving ForwardDiscussionAppropriateHeritageSaudisExaminingCandid Author:Colin Powell
“There's a great tradition at the BFI of giving fellowships and I thought one of the great jobs that I'd have at the BFI would be to give them out on a regular basis.” GivingWould BeJobsTraditionBasesFellowshipGreat Job Author:Anthony Minghella
“After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition continues in our New York run.” RunningAudienceMinutesNew YorkTenTraditionPerformancesProductionsDiscussionInvitedAustin Author:Jeff Britting
“Sound is one of the best most powerful tools. All the ancient traditions confirm that in the beginning was the word. Sound sort of predates form.” FormSoundPowerfulTraditionToolsAncientMost Powerful Author:MC Yogi
“In the music business I am surrounded by people who don't view music as a sacred voice. They view music as something that they can use and exploit, often times lazily. They have no sense of the tradition, they have no sense of honor about those who came before and charted the path.” PeopleUseVoiceViewsPathHonorTraditionSacredExploitsMusic Business Author:Billy Corgan
“I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.” PeopleWorldSeemsAsksGreaterTraditionImportanceAsk MeMusic Business Author:Billy Corgan