Andy Taylor Quotes

We can't be beholden to the past.

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.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

I love seeing the new generation take something that we've done and reinvent it for a whole new time.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!

So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to encapsulate you in a time so they can remember their youth. But you're here to continually push forward and move forward. That's where I'm at - I just want to always surprise people.

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

We're not good at propping up old carcasses. We want to be on top of what's vital at any particular time, and not just hold onto something because it has a name.

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

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Every season we try to do something new. And not for gimmicks. We feel the show has to evolve and keep changing.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Tradition means nothing. It's about what you do tomorrow as a football club, not what you did yesterday.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

Tradition matters. To me it's not a limiting force; it's a springboard.

We don't want to live in the past; we want to go into the future.

To me, the funnest part of wrestling is evolving. If you stay the same all the time, you're eventually going to be left behind.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

The avant-garde has always existed throughout the history of mankind. The good things from the avant-garde last and eventually, after many years, become tradition and people forget they were ever part of the avant-garde. The kitchen is a living discipline, always evolving, and there will always be cutting edge things that over the years, ends up being part of tradition.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.