Fantastic Negrito Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

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

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.

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.

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.

Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

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

There is no new world that you make without the old world.

With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.

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.

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

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

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

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.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

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

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.