Sangram Singh Quotes

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.

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.

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.

From my own perspective, I value productivity more than tradition, but the customs of the House evolve slowly.

I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.'

From the inception of this series, Mike and I were very interested in exploring the theme of tradition versus progress. We always like the struggle for balance to be a central theme of our stories, so as we introduce all of these changes to the 'Avatar' world, we get to see how people react and try to realign themselves.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

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

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.

The thing is, we've changed our style but we've never changed the actual roots of what we've done.

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.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

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.

Sadly, cinemas with film as the primary source are disappearing. We need to remain open to change. That does not require one to divorce the past but to respect and process both the present and the future.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him as a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

To endeavor to rehabilitate the sabbath of our forefathers is as foolish as to try to make people go back into log houses and cook in a fire-place. Some persons can never realize that the world grows; that what was a help to one age becomes a hindrance to another; that time corrects the mistakes of men and that respect and reverence for our ancestors does not necessarily require us to adopt their clothes or their habits.

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.

A reactionary is fixed on the past and wanting to return to it; a conservative wishes to adapt what is best in the past to the changing circumstances of the present.