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“Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris.”

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Author:Laura Lippman

“I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.”

Thinking Men Needs Mind Kind Sports He Man Tradition Glamour Skating Sparkle

Author:Kristi Yamaguchi

“We are faced with having to learn again about interdependency and the need for rootedness after several centuries of having systematically-and proudly-dismantled our roots, ties, and traditions. We had grown so tall we thought we could afford to cut the roots that held us down, only to discover that the tallest trees need the most elaborate roots of all.”

Needs Cutting Tree Century Pride Tradition Roots Ties Tall Interconnection Rootedness

Author:Paul L Wachtel

“Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.”

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Author:Betty Shabazz

“When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.”

Needs Writing Grows Chance Tradition Protection Makers Merry Defiance Seeming Walt Butchers Bakers

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

“I love and revere the rich and proud history of America. And I am determined to take our best traditions into the future. But with all respect, we do not need to build a bridge to the past. We need to build a bridge to the future.”

Needs America Past Rich Proud Tradition Determined Bridges I Am Determined

Author:William J. Clinton

“You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.”

Needs Order Tradition Mixtures Modernity

Author:Theodore Bikel

“In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before, in which we must choose the values by which we will live (rather than unquestioningly follow some tradition for no better reason than that our own parents did), we need to be willing to stand on our own judgment and trust our own intelligence-to look at the world through our own eyes-to chart our course and think through how to achieve the future we want, to commit ourselves to continuous questioning and learning-to be, in a word, self-responsible.”

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

“The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.”

Thinking Needs Past Social Cutting Failing Media Tradition Social Media Online Clothings Fabric Jewels Learn From The Past

Author:Giuseppe Zanotti

“Buddhists have a long-standing tradition of believing that at some level we always know what the best course of action is in any given situation. We just have to be quiet enough to let that course of action present itself to us. And we need the confidence to act when life shows us what we need to do.”

Knows Needs Believe Long Enough Shows Action Courses Given Levels Situation Confidence Quiet Standing Tradition Buddhist Stillness

Book:Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

Source: Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

“John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the survival of its community. I think of my family stories-Mother's in particular-how much I need them now, how much I will need them later. It has been said when an individual dies, whole worlds die with them. The same could be said of each passing whale.”

Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

“Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.”

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Author:Barton Seaver

“[Dr. Constain James] refuted so well the aberrations of Darwinism.... [A system] which is repugnant at once to history, to the tradition of all people, to exact science, to observed facts, and even to reason itself, would seem to need no refutation. But the corruption of this age, the machinations of the perverse, the danger of the simple, demand that such fancies, altogether absurd though they are, should - since they borrow the mask of science - be refuted by true science.”

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Author:Pope Pius IX

“It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love and trust, they also need us for honest differing. It's not only over limits and rules...[but also] about what we represent in the way of culture, traditions, and values. We owe it to our children to let them know what we believe, and if they differ with us, we owe it to them to be honest adversaries, for it is through this honest confrontation that children can grow into adults who have a firm sense of their place in the sequence of the generations.”

“I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.”

“Nations need to understand their own strengths and weaknesses, and India's tradition of dissent and democratic debate is a positive aspect.”

Needs Nations Weakness Aspect Tradition India Democratic Debate Dissent Strength And Weakness

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“We don't need to reinvent manliness. We only need to will ourselves to wake up from the bad dream of the last few generations and reclaim it, in order to extend and enrich that tradition under the formidable demands of the present.”

Men Needs Dream Lasts Order Generations Demand Tradition Wake Up Manhood Formidable Manliness Bad Dream

Author:Waller R Newell

“In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can all follow the tradition of where we came from. We need to keep referring to the pioneers.”

Needs Care Order Tradition Hip Hop Mess Hips Hops Pioneers Referring No One Cares Where We Came

Author:Nas

“I think we need to think about Islamic tradition as a way of asking questions that cut across (and transgress) the assumptions of a purely secular world in which we already know how things stand for individual subjects as well as for societies.”

Thinking Knows World Way Needs Wells Individual Know How Cutting Subjects Tradition Asking Assumption Islamic Secular Asking Questions

Author:Talal Asad

“Doing meditation you may need to experiment to discover what kinds of thoughts are best for your own unique interests and situation. For you it might be a repetitive "mantra," or simply an open state of watching your breath, like in the Buddhist tradition.”

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Author:Tim McCarthy

“To implement a new sport aside your tradition takes time. You definitely need a strategy for the entire country. You need highly qualified coaches for all regions that work with the same concept.”

Needs Country Sports Concepts Tradition Strategy Coaches Regions Take Time Qualified

Author:Berti Vogts

“It's in that tradition that we're here today, and we look to soup because there's no force on the globe that brings people together on a daily basis with the same consistency and manner than the cultivation, preparation and eating of food. Food affords us the opportunity to touch everyone in our community, to address the needs of all groups - food is the intersection of the most pressing issues of our time.”

People Needs Looks Today Together Opportunity Force Community Issues Groups Eating Tradition Bases Preparation Our Time Addresses Globes Consistency Soup Our Community Cultivation Intersections

Author:Sam Kass

“First of all, in many Muslim countries women have incredible amounts of freedom, sometimes more than in some countries in Europe. So you cannot just make a generalized statement about women. Second, Islam is not the problem. It's tradition. It's culture. It's age-old mind-sets that need to be changed.”

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Author:Queen Rania of Jordan

“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.”

Needs Art Class Tradition Innovation Math Great Art Great Music Math Class

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz musicians that at this point the entirety of the American tradition is your heritage, and you need to know it.”

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Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of the rigidities of pediatric tradition, particularly in infant feeding. It emphasized the importance of great differences between individual babies, of the need for flexibility and of the lack of necessity to worry constantly about spoiling.”

Needs Book Wanted Individual Parent Differences Worry Baby Tradition Importance Feeding Supportive Flexibility Infant Rigidity

Author:Benjamin Spock

“Traditions cannot themselves, simply with their own powers, do what needs to be done. These earlier experiences and accomplishments were dealing with other issues, providing guidance for different worlds than the world of the early twenty-first century.”

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Author:Thomas Berry

“We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.”

“Many Americans believe marriage is between a man and a woman, and we need to celebrate marriage as the best way to provide stability for children. For people who live by the clear teaching of many different faith traditions and people who simply believe in the sanctity of marriage, it is essential that their views are respected.”

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Author:James Lankford

“We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.”

Men Needs Mind Humans Problem Christian Consciousness Taken Areas Tradition Definitions Human Mind Forbidden Machinery Acquisition

Author:Terence McKenna

“Many analysts compare Turkey with countries in the Middle East, but I think we need to compare it with Russia. Both countries come from a tradition of empire, and also from a tradition of the strong state.”

Thinking Needs Country States Strong Middle Tradition East Russia Compare Empires Middle East Turkeys Analysts

Author:Elif Safak

“Musicians coming together at a time of need is one of the great traditions in this country. It's like people taking charge.”

People Needs Country Together Musician Tradition Coming Together Time Of Need Taking Charge

Author:Mark O'Connor

“Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community.”

Needs Humans Heart Community Healing Failing Tradition Wounds Passing Passings Storytelling Being Human Strengthening Basic Needs Confessing

Book:A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

Source: A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

“We must embrace our differences, even celebrate our diversity. We must glory in the fact that God created each of us as unique human beings. God created us different, but God did not create us for separation. God created us different that we might recognize our need for one another. We must reverence our uniqueness, reverence everything that makes us what we are: our language, our culture, our religious tradition.”

“People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals featuring pentagrams, swords, and invocations. That's fine, people need to give free reign to their imagination and to go through certain stages. Anyone who gets through those stages without being deceived will eventually get in touch with the Tradition.”

“One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.”

Thinking Needs Looks Kind Long Important Artist Class One Thing Economic Tradition Mad Newspapers Corporate Latter Executives Editors Professors Elites Elitism Populism Newspaper Editors

Author:Astra Taylor

“We live in a culture where information is becoming easier to access. Certain special practices have been kept very quiet and secret, and those traditions need to be respected. But there are a lot of teachings people can access that would benefit them greatly.”

People Needs Has Beens Certain Culture Secret Practice Teaching Special Information Becoming Easier Quiet Benefits Tradition Access

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“People struggle most with seeing new ways of doing things and often need help in breaking through their tradition-bound mindsets.”

People Way Needs Helping Struggle Seeing Tradition Bounds Mindset New Ways Need Help New Ways Of Doing Things

Author:Stewart D. Friedman

“In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more scholarly works, namely, that the Reformed tradition is broader and more variegated than is often reported today, and that we need to recapture something of this in order that we don't end up unnecessarily narrow in our doctrine and in order to keep some perspective.”

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Author:Oliver D. Crisp

“[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to broaden our account of the tradition!”

Needs Trying Tradition Accounts Deviants

Author:Oliver D. Crisp

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

People Thinking Needs Tradition Traditional Disregard Pantomime

Author:Clive Rowe

“I think that Hillary Clinton has an appreciation that American power needs to be put in the service of American values, which is an American tradition and a pretty good one, and I think she was willing to do that.”

Thinking Needs Values Willing Tradition Clinton Appreciation American Values American Tradition American Power

Author:Daniel Fried

“In the end, you do need institutions to transmit the faith for the long haul. That's why I make the case that, in certain ways, American Protestants could stand to recover the denominationalism that they've left behind over the last 50 years. They are real values in having a confessional tradition that can sustain your faith over the long term.”

Way Needs Years Long Real Ends Lasts Certain Values Left Term Behinds Cases Tradition Institutions Long Term Left Behind Protestants Transmit Haul Real Value Long Haul

Author:Ross Douthat

“Tolerance has been a very important feature of Christianity from its very roots, despite all the other things that have gone on since. And that, I think, must be the global perspective. Tolerance implies more than saying, "Well, let the Muslims go on with what they are doing." It also means trying to learn something from them and adding that to your own tradition. That is the attitude I think needs to inform the global citizen of the future.”

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Author:Ninian Smart

“What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.”

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Author:Joyce Meyer

“I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.”

Men Want Needs Should Believe Has Beens Different Feelings Kids Able Spiritual Church Married Tradition Raised Atheist Temples Humanist Different Religions

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.”

People Inspirational Needs Funny Habit Tradition Reform Sarcastic Customs Prohibition Bad Habits Good Habits Drug Prohibition Daily Habits

Author:Mark Twain

“A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.”

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and protocol fly out the window.”

People World Needs Real Done Serious Tradition Window Consideration Real World Competent Things Done Protocol

Author:Neal Stephenson

“The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and frightening in the Middle Ages. But the tradition of artists will continue no matter what form the society takes. And this is another reason to write: people need us, to mirror for them and for each other without distortion-not to look around and say, 'Look at yourselves, you idiots!,' but to say, 'This is who we are.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

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