Chris Thile Quotes

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

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 past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

I can understand when people copy people of the past and make the future their own.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

If you throw the pebble in the pond and the rings start circulating that much wider, you've done things and created things for people that they didn't think they'd ever be able to do. That excites me.

Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

I'm an optimist - that's why I try to invent different systems; otherwise, I may as well stop right now. Sometimes I get the feeling the French cinema holds on tightly to what exists already.

The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

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

What I love about the TED is that it's not, 'Hey, take this check and enjoy.' It's, 'Do something with this, and we'll help you.' I think that's the most beautiful prize I've ever heard of.

We have no precedents to guide us, and that is a glorious thing, for precedents, like other guides are disposed to grow tyrannical and refuse to let us do anything on our own initiative. Life grows wearisome in the countries where precedents and conventionality is rule and nothing can happen unless it has happen before.

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.

The past should have a vote but not a veto.