Tradition is the code that keeps change in lock. If you refuse change, you are likely to rust and guess the cause; that long held way of doing things.
Israelmore AyivorTag: belief change culture food-for-thought tradition changes changing extra change-your-life code lock traditional password make-a-change unlock extra-mile israelmore-ayivor mark-time stagnant
To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren’t — open your ears at your funeral.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: lies death conformity eulogy funeral tradition insincerity deceased
Archer had reverted to all his old inherited ideas about marriage. It was less trouble to conform with the tradition and treat May exactly as all his friends treated their wives than to try to put into practice the theories with which his untrammelled bachelorhood had dallied.
Edith WhartonTag: marriage tradition gender-roles
Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.
N.T. WrightTag: christianity scripture bible tradition
I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because it's not really that intense or even that serious, but just... you know after a while you get tired of hearing clergymen giving the invocation at various public celebrations and you feel, haven't we outgrown all this? Do we have to listen to this?
Steven WeinbergTag: belief superstition offense europe tradition childish pointless
The would-be students wish to transcend books.
But, ask yourselves: if someone says that books do not contain wisdom, and yet he writes books; books do not contain Sufism, and yet he continues to publish books on Sufism, what is really happening? It really is your duty, and not mine, to ask and to find the answer to that question, if you are interested enough.
No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.
Jeff BezosTag: change growth challenge tradition
The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.
Jeff BezosI have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're looking into the void. We thought that we were liberating people from oppressive cultural circumstances, but we were, in fact, taking something away from them. We were killing off civility and concern. We were undermining all those little ties of loyalty and consideration and affection that are necessary for human flourishing. We thought that tradition was bad, that it created hidebound societies, that it held people down. But, in fact, what tradition was doing all along was affirming community and the sense that we are members of one another. Do we really love and respect one another more in the absence of tradition and manners and all the rest? Or have we merely converted one another into moral strangers - making our countries nothing more than hotels for the convenience of guests who are required only to avoid stepping on the toes of other guests?
Alexander McCall SmithTag: society nationalism civilization civilisation culture tradition
Tradition was safety; change was danger.
Mary Doria RussellTag: change safety danger tradition
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