Chronological Snobbery Quotes

#1. Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility ... youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

C.S. Lewis

#2. Another factor that seems to me to be equally important is the great myth and rationale of 'the modern,' that it places dynamite at the foot of old error and levels its shrines and monuments. Contempt for the past surely accounts for a consistent failure to consult it.

Marilynne Robinson

#3. Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps

Pearl Zhu

#4. I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology has put us beyond the lessons of the past.

J. Rufus Fears

#5. If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.

Criss Jami

#6. We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

Criss Jami

#7. I know that the work is good and they're excited over at ABC and Disney and it's getting some really good feedback. It's not just a little, insignificant kind of role. It's meaty, which is good.

Josh Holloway

#8. What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

W. Somerset Maugham

#9. We provide many options in many product areas that they seem to want to adopt, and that's working well for us.

Jim Barksdale

#10. Dancin' in the welfare lines.

Rickie Lee Jones

#11. Lewis had experienced more trauma than most of his modern readers ever will.

Alister E. McGrath

#12. Where's the goddamn giant?

Jason Aaron