Sun Ra Quotes

I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.

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• Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • History
  • Tradition

• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Tradition
  • Guide
  • Jailer

• My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Kids
  • Wife
  • Tradition

• I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • World
  • Discipline
  • Comfortable

• I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Tradition
  • Feet
  • Stand

• I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Vision
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Singing
  • Discipline
  • Making

• Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Men
  • Home
  • Discipline

• I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Commandment, other than via the tradition of wearing white on Friday nights at summer camp, which never seemed to dovetail with the fact that Fridays were also the night for grape juice.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Night
  • Religious
  • Summer

• I've met lots of interesting people, but Lucian Freud is the one who sticks out because I spent so much time with him. He taught me discipline, which I hadn't been taught properly before. If I was, like, two seconds, late, he would kick off. Once, I was three minutes late, and he went absolutely berserk.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Time
  • Interesting

• Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Religious
  • Woman
  • Sin

• Tradition has made women cowardly.

  

  Nance O'Neil
  • Women
  • Made
  • Tradition

• The Celtic Church as we know it, till gradually brought under Roman discipline, was purely monastic. The monasteries were the centres whence the ministry of souls was exercised.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Know
  • Church
  • Discipline

• I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Years
  • Tradition

• Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Important
  • Kids

• Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Today
  • Discipline
  • Tomorrow

• Economics is a narrative discipline, and explanations are easy to fit retrospectively. (page 257)

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Discipline

• While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can't discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn't really matter.

  

  William Golding
  • Matter
  • Discipline
  • Hands

• The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Pitch
  • Unnatural
  • Screwball`s

• This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He ever had wrapped in our skin. He learned how to walk, stumbled and fell, cried for His milk, sweated blood in the night, was lashed with a whip and showered with spit, was fixed to a cross, and died whispering forgiveness on us all.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Blood
  • Grace

• You can laugh your way into hell but not out.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Way
  • Laughing
  • Hell

• Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Nature
  • Simplicity
  • Dummy

• I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.

  

  Sun Ra
  • Discipline
  • Tradition
  • Division