Traditional Mindset Quotes

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.

Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things

The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life. That's how my parents were; my parents have been teachers for as long as I've known 'em. I was worried that I'd gotten into something that I was going to hate.

I'm a creature of habit. I don't really like change.

I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

We continue to think of new things in old ways.

Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

We are in the twentieth or the twenty-first century, but all the thinking, if you speak to one of those people keen on technology - you see that all their thinking is two centuries old. In cinema, you can show this.

Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything—even spikes on a new pair of shoes—but they will eventually...they are bound to.

I'm an old-school guy. I'm a competitor.

All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.

If you remain conventional and don't change, you'll get along. You'll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out there. You'll never be able to keep a marriage together, you'll never be able to keep anything together, because the whole goddamn thing isn't together.

Businessmen go down with their businesses because they like the old way so well they cannot change.

Ancestral habits of mind can be constricting; they also confer one's individuality.

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

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

I know what I like, and I'm not trying to adapt to new things.

Maybe bitcoin is a kind of a bubble. I don't like it. I'm not comfortable with it. I'm kind of an old dog to be absorbing that kind of a new trick.

Historically, and even now, women have been asked to give up on their dreams way more than men, mostly - because it's sort of like you're supposed to once you become a wife and mother. That's a generalization; that's what the mentality has been.

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.

My dad felt old school.