Quotes About Tradition

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.

I was really interested in geishas' work, and wanted to meet real geishas.

I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.

July 4th is Independence Day in the U.S., and it is celebrated in a truly American way by blowing things up and taking a day off from work.

AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.

My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that's how I've always liked to work.

Everyone in my family used to work with some kind of tool in their hands every day. That's what we do. That's what I did before I got into acting.

When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.

In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way of doing things that were not done.

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

My peer network is international. It's people all over the place who I know, and respect their work. It's not really delineated by traditional nationalist ideas.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

My father's definitely old-school. And he raised me with integrity - to be places on time, show up, and work hard.

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.

New Year's Day probably is not going to work. And one of the main reasons it's not going to work is that the Rose Bowl is on New Year's Day, and it's not moving.

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.

Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.

In my religion all believers would stop work at sundown and have a drink together.

If we want to succeed, we need to recover our grandparents' work ethic.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.