Old Ways Quotes - Page 2

• I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

  Buck Owens

  Song, Fun, Thinking

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• We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Self, Long, Effort

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• Effective collaboration is about maximizing time, talent and tools to create value. The old way was the pass-along approach. I do my job and then pass along my work product to you. You do your piece of it and pass it along to somebody else.

  Evan Rosen

  Jobs, Collaboration, Tools

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• Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Spiritual, Teacher, Example

  Alister E. McGrath (2012). “Reformation Thought: An Introduction”, p.25, John Wiley & Sons

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• Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood. This opens the way into the Thorned Path, a system, which uses five rose thorns to symbolize the five arts of Witchcraft that one should master. These arts are Herbalist, Fortune-Teller, Spirit Medium, Mystic, and Magician. We call mastering these aspects 'the gathered thorns' --thus the Thorned Path.

  Raven Grimassi

  Art, Blood, Rose

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• When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context.

  Jonathan Hale

  Attitude, House, Effort

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• The four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way.

  Peter Tork

  Morning, Night, Sick

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• We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

  John Brunner

  Way, Casting, Should

  John Brunner (2014). “The Shockwave Rider”, p.213, Open Road Media

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• Only those young people can be accepted as healthy who refuse to be reconciled with the old order and foolishly or wisely struggle against it - such is the will of nature...

  Anton Chekhov

  Progress, Way, Youth

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.

  Carl Sandburg

  Running, Dream, Real

  Carl Sandburg (2012). “Chicago Poems: Unabridged”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering behind

  Waris Dirie

  Relationship, Trust, Loyalty

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• I made cranberry sauce, and when it was done put it into a dark blue bowl for the beautiful contrast. I was thinking, doing this, about the old ways of gratitude: Indians thanking the deer they'd slain, grace before supper, kneeling before bed. I was thinking that gratitude is too much absent in our lives now, and we need it back, even if it only takes the form of acknowledging the blue of a bowl against the red of cranberries.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Beautiful, Gratitude, Dark

  Elizabeth Berg (2000). “Open House: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

  Edwin Land

  Mistake, History, Way

  "Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land" by Victor K. McElheny, (p. 198), 1998.

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• In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make up more than two-thirds of the world, the two-thirds that will not be going online to "save" time but will remain wedded to the knowledge that if the bus doesn't come that day, it will come someday. After all, there is nothing but time.

  Gloria Naylor

  Technology, Two, World

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• In the Atlantean civilization, law existed to create order, that is to say, to see justice was done. In the old way, the law was equal for all, not the strong win and the weak lose.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Strong, Winning

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• I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Self, World, Rupture

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Eye, Hair, Way

  "Vidal Sassoon Was an Actual Person" by Michael Schulman, www.newyorker.com. May 10, 2012.

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• It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth year since I got into music. 'X' is the 24th letter in the alphabet, and I will turn 24 when this album comes out. 'X' is also a metaphor, as in 'ex-girlfriend': it implies you're progressing and moving on in life, not holding on to the past and your old ways.

  Chris Brown

  Girlfriend, Moving, Past

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• Curled up in bed,
  I’m young
  in the old way.

  Rae Armantrout

  Bed, Way, Young

  Rae Armantrout (2015). “Itself”, p.49, Wesleyan University Press

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• If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?

  Joe Abercrombie

  Men, People, Want

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• As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways of thinking, always questioning their understanding of the world. Going back to old ways, old technology is forbidden. There in no past, no present, only an endless future of inadequacy

  Richard Kadrey

  Past, Technology, Thinking

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• I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.

  Sergei Rachmaninoff

  Writing, Effort, Musical

  "Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music". Book by Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda, p. 351, 2002.

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• Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

  Gloria Naylor

  Home, Knowing, Long

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.37, Open Road Media

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

  Henry Ford

  Curiosity, Way, Adaptability

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• To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and wisdom in your heart, This is the best of life; when we are young We long to tread a way none trod before, But find the excellent old way through love And through the care of children to the hour Forbidding Fate and Time and Change goodbye.

  William Butler Yeats

  Goodbye, Children, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.101, Penguin

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