Quotes of: American-tradition Keyword

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

Chelsea Clinton

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Noam Chomsky

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

Koichi Tanaka

With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

Arlo Guthrie

Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'

Doc Watson

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.

George Strait

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.

Michael Sheen

My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional.

Andres Serrano

Tradition in the nursery has acted as a severe editor.

Walter Jerrold

I realized it wasn't necessary to work in the traditional methods of carving and casting.

Martin Puryear

The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.

Bill Shuster

Because cultures and languages are constantly changing and because the apostolic testimony must be attested in ever-new circumstances, it is a necessary feature of the apostolic tradition that it both guard the original testimony and make it understa...

Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline

One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by Gogol, Leskov, Bely, Remizov, and, in certain aspects of their work, also by Babel and Bulgakov. It is ...

The Dragon: Fifteen Stories

I strongly feel that it is only when there is a deep understanding of one's own religious beliefs and commitments that progress can be made in achieving true understanding and respect for the religious values and beliefs of others. Engaging in interf...

Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding

In thinking about miracles, I believe that our frame of reference has been too dramatic. We have been looking for the burning bush, the parting of the sea, the bellowing voice from heaven. Instead we should be looking at the ordinary day-to-day event...

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

...the Chöd teachings attributed to both rely and innovate on Buddhist representations of mental functionings of a human being, including the onto-epistemological trope of the Universal Base Consciousness [ālaya-vijñāna] and the psycho-ethical tr...

Making the Old New Again and Again: Legitimation and Innovation in the Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Tradition

Yet despite...accommodations with commerce, Möser regarded the market as primarily a threat--to the artisanal citizens of the town, to the traditional wants of the peasantry, and to the political structure to society, since it created a growing clas...

The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought

Critical and feminist theorists show that most leadership research, including studies of transformational leadership, continue to present prescriptions - heroic or post-heroic - as if they were gender neutral. The critics argue that, although there i...

Leadership for the Disillusioned: Moving Beyond Myths and Heroes to Leading That Liberates

How promising today's generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digital photos of their cat and then just delete them. But I'd like to see these kids try to artfully use a traditional film camera or m...

Rebecca McNutt

For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.

Daniel Boulud

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

Theodore Bikel