Old Ways Quotes

Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?

I try to swim for 30 minutes and walk for 30 minutes, because if I don't, my finely honed body will slip into its old ways.

I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

Always challenge the old ways.

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.

I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don't even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.

Technology is advancing at breakneck speed, upending old ways of doing business and resetting the social contract between employers and employees.

Novelty even is useful if a general opinion prevails that the old way is bad.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning.

I'm a blue collar guy from Spokane, Washington, who was raised to just be respectful, be a sportsman, and just speak with your performances, and I'm glad that I'm back to my old ways.

I realize that we've come to a different way of showing movies. But I'm still with the old ways, and I can't change.

The ground beneath you is shifting, and either you get sucked in by holding on to old ways, or you take a giant step forward by taking some risks and seeing what happens.

Each time these pioneers expanded into new realms, they discovered the old ways wouldn't work. Whenever a new domain was inhabited by humans, old survival patterns were left behind and new patterns created.

Now, I'm back to my old ways: Needing to be the leader, needing to score.

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.

You always have to find some new ways. Old ways are too known.

Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things.

The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That's fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.

I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.'

What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

You cannot rely upon what you have been taught. 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.

Good, old-fashioned ways keep hearts sweet, heads sane, hands busy.

Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.