Quotes About Inflexibility

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head but once there, there was no shifting it.

Tak usah pedulikan semua itu. Karena sejarah tak akan mudah disangkal. Begitu pula agama. Pada akhirnya aku adalah seorang Pashtun dan dia seorang Hazara, aku seorang Sunni dan dia seorang Syi'ah, dan tidak ada yang bisa mengubahnya. Tidak ada.

Dogmatism spreads its roots in the fertile soil of uncertainty.

As bureaucracies accumulate power, they become immune to their own mistakes. Instead of changing their stories to fit reality, they can change reality to fit their stories. In the end external reality matches their bureaucratic fantasies, but only because they forced reality to do so.

I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.

So was his intolerance of dissenting opinions.

People don't like to change their minds. Once they perceive you one way, that's it. They kind of file you away in their minds as a certain kind of person. You cannot become a different person in their minds.

People ho need to be right do so because they fundamentally feel wrong.

Objectivity is obsessed with exactness and tends to be rather intolerant of deviation, almost

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Try to prise a limpet away from its rock and it will cling all the harder.

It is the fault of the orders, which are too rigid. There is no allowance for a change in circumstance.

You will dance to the tune they play. Or you will take leave of the dance-floor. Because the orchestra's podium is too high for you to climb up there and tell the musicians to play some other tune. Realise that at last. If you think another solution is possible, you are making a mistake. You mistake the stars reflected in the surface of the lake at night for the heavens

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell them.

But the world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise.

State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes hand in hand with their planned and goal-directed nature, and when they fail the efforts of the state are directed not to changing them but to changing people's belief that they have failed.

Lily remembered Sandra saying that Caleb's mind couldn't be changed by a blast of dynamite once he'd made it up on a subject, and she had a hunch both women were right. Caleb was the most hardheaded man on earth.

You're always cutting your nose off to spite your face. I've never met a woman as stubborn as you. Even when it's not in your interests you'll do something to make a point.

I don't like to be proved wrong.