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T.S. Eliot deems dangerous the tendency "to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile to all change; to aim to return to some previous condition which we imagine as having been capable of preservation in perpetuity". "Tradition without intelligence, he challenges, "is not worth having. ↗


— T.S. Eliot


#tradition #change

Today...major actors and actresses develop their own projects or, at the very least, cherry-pick their roles carefully to suit not only their tastes but also whatever image they have cultivated to present to their public. Most major stars have their own production companies through which such projects are developed and even financed. While the biggest male stars of that time did in fact have their own production companies--Jimmy Stewart, Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, and Burt Lancaster, to name a few--and thus exerted creative and financial control over their careers, that was not the case with female stars. But Marilyn Monroe was about to change that. ↗


— J. Randy Taraborrelli


#marilyn-monroe #old-hollywood #progress #change

Trying to change someone, and their views, is like throwing paper into a fire. ↗


— Anthony Liccione


#personality #views #ways-people-live #change

I'm tired of being crushed by the weight of men that believe in nothing, I have to change that. ↗


— Jackson Teller Sons of Anarchy


#inspirational #truth #change

Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. ↗


— Lynn Abbey


#enough #get #holding #holding on #ideas

The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time. ↗


— Wendy Williams


#science #change

...Inflation had risen to the unimaginable figure of just over 100,000 percent by the end of 1947--and it was to go to 2,870,000 percent by the end of 1948... ↗


— Jung Chang


#change

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise. ↗


— Aldo Leopold


#nature #science #business

This is the war where we change. This is the trickster war. It's where we disappear, just like they desire us disappear. I spoke it you before: They wish us blank," he said, gesturing without thinking at Dr. Trefusis, who was the nearest exemplar of the white race. "They want us with no history and no memory. They want us empty as paper so they can write on us, so we ain't nothing but a price and an owner's name and a list of tasks. And that's what we'll give them. We'll give them your Nothing. We'll give them my William Williams and Henry Henry. We'll slip through and we'll change to who we must needs be and I will be all sly and have my delightful picaresque japes. But at the end of it, when it's over, I shall be one thing. I shall be one man, fixed, and not have to take no other name. I shall be one person steadily for some years." "This is why we got to win...If we ever wish to be one person, we got to win. ↗


— M.T. Anderson


#slaves #change

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. ↗


— Paul Getty


#always #any #believed #binding #business






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