Quotes About Inflexibility

You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.

Cluster C liked everything to stay the same, forever.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force—

I feel as a chessman must when the opponent says of it: that piece cannot be moved.

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

... always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

Pablo var fyrtinn, stöðugt andsnúinn honum og vildi alltaf hafa rétt fyrir sér, en það voru þrjár óhrekjanlegar sannanir fyrir veikri skapgerð.

A stiffnecked people.

He was a creature who had developed firmly into one pattern. He'd destroy himself before changing into the opposite of that pattern.

When we decide to see things one way we are often incapable of seeing them any other way.

offering silent tribute to the unwillingness of any bureaucracy to go out of business. By

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

A little uptight? Hey, man you couldn't drag a needle out of her butt with a tractor.

Difficulty seeing the "grays"; concrete, literal, black-and-white thinking Difficulty deviating from rules or routine Difficulty handling unpredictability, ambiguity, uncertainty, or novelty Difficulty shifting from original idea or solution Difficulty adapting to changes in plan or new rules Difficulty taking into account situational factors that would suggest the need to adjust a plan

It was useless arguing with people like her. They had stereotyped minds that ran along grooves of stock response and the commonplace.

YOU WILL NOT. IT'S OUT OF THE QUESTION

I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were for the stupid the immature the irresponsible. The inflexible and the narrow-minded. The prejudiced. The obsessive. The lazy and careless and selfish and spoilt. The violent.

Chalcedony wasn't built for crying. She didn't have it in her, not unless her tears were cold tapered glass droplets annealed by the inferno heat that had crippled her.

Anxiety is the evil conjoined twin of rigidity.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

I think my whole deal was I didn't think other people had a right to an opinion. I think the problem I had was, in real life, it was my way or the highway, and if people disagreed with me, then they were just wrong.

In this stupid world most people never consider that a thing is good to be done unless it is done by their own set.