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I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition
But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.
My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.
I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.
I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.
I'm an old-fashioned guy.
Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
I am one with the popular culture.
I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.
Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups.
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.
There is none more conformist than one who flaunts his individuality.
We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional ... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.
I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.
I am just an old-fashioned girl.
I believe in traditions; I believe in the idea of things being passed between generations and the slow transmission of cultural values through tradition.
I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh ... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.
Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.
Conventional might not always be the right thing.
I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!
When it comes to dating, I'm straightforward and traditional with a twist.
Tradition is an aspiration to connect the Self with the Other. One "internalizes" the Other as one acquires a sense of what one's own tradition is, what one belongs to and what gives valid shape to one's life.
A hipster is someone who's very aware of his style.
in a world full of trends, i want to remain a classic
When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.
While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that passive resignation becomes the approved norm, and acceptance of undesirable conditions becomes the way of life.
My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.
I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.
It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.
Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.
One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly.
There are traditionalists, and there are people in the middle, which is where I am. I still get my newspaper delivered. I love the ritual of it. But I also jump into the cab when I leave home and I look at some BBC on my iPad.
Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love.
There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.
A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do, as long as it's compulsory.
On the one hand I have very traditional values: I'm looking for love and want a baby one day. On the other hand, I have a secret and rebel side, that I maybe took from an Australian mom who handed down to me the love for adventure and freedom. And sometimes I feel a bit offbeat.
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
My dad has always been the bohemian ...
I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.
The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.
Somebody
who's passionate about life and does
their own thing.
It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.
I'm mainstream. Always have been.
Those [who] assiduously fabricate for themselves a self-conscious originality, and after having made a choice of certain practices, their principal preoccupation is never to depart from them, to remain for ever on their guard and allow themselves not a moment's relaxation.
a child without tradition is a child crippled before the world. Tradition
There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the 'burbs and be happy. But forging my own way - my career, my relationships with wonderful but troubled people - that's who I am.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.
I'd say we are traditionalist. We are heavy on discipline and relatively strict and structured. But we also make sure our children feel not just physically safe but emotionally safe, like they can come to us with anything.
When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.
I'm really not this jazz traditionalist guy you've been making me out to be all of these years.
Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!
Seek freedom from the conformity of styles
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
The significant mistake of the traditionalists is they require the people to start where the church is instead of the church starting where the people are. Innovators begin by asking, 'What do we need to do to reach the people where they are?'
We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
My own style is pretty classic; I much prefer to design for others.
An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself.'
Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.
I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'
Traditional grammar
I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.
Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'
My time of martial arts was traditional.
[A] healthy respect for tradition[;]...a kind of default survival behavior
A classic liberal is more like a libertarian. I'm sorry. Classic liberal, actually, from the 1800s has a totally different meaning than a liberal who is [modern] classic.
In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.
Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy.
A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
I have a very classic take on fashion. I like my accessories to pop, but in general, my style is pretty classic.
I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).
Part of my success is because I'm very old-fashioned.
Your old traditional way of thinking is your problem
Scratch me and you will find the Nonconformist.
You're not a conventional man." "No!" He hooted. "I never claimed to be! Except before certain selection committees of course. A conventional man! Ah, ha ha ha ha ha! - the conventional men get Maya. That is their reward." And he laughed like a wild man.
The modern materialist often makes it simply: "Do what you like," and then rushes off to ask his psychoanalyst when he no longer likes anything.
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.
Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.
A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.
Futilitarianism.
My childhood was as conventional as you could get.
Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.
I'm an unpure purist, something like that.
I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
Custom is the Guide of the Ignorant.
A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true because I believe it."
An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true.
Strong belief in the bright future, always hiding fear of the past.
I'm an old-school type of guy.
A Classical style ... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.
Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
I'm an old-school guy.
I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.