Liv Ullmann Quotes

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.

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

Piety and virtue lie in obedience and conformity, while nothing is more repugnant than change and innovation.

…the burden of proof rests always upon the advocates of change.

Those who cling to the past won't give up without a fight.

Powerful imaginations are conservative.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Custom is petrification; nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

Change is strong, but habit is strong too; and you cannot change the old for new, like a garment.

It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no going back, and you'd be miserable if you did.

By definition, conservatives struggle with change.

Maybe I'm a bit of a Luddite.

It's good to be progressive, but don't shun the good things about tradition.

Clinging to old ways and fighting change is not the answer.

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.