Quotes About Inflexible

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.

Unable to digest it, they had taken refuge in anger at Einstein. Their refuge had been a dead end; all that inflexible old guard could do was die and let younger minds take over.

While there is no doubt that certain specific skills and experiencesmay be very helpful in preparing a person for a particular job, we should be careful not to require these skills. We will not find the people most capable of making important decisions by instituting arbitrary or inflexible prerequisites. On the contrary, these requirements end up excluding some of the best possible people.

Je suis sans pitié ! Je suis sans pitié ! Plus les vers se tordent, plus grande est mon envie de leur écraser les entrailles ! C'est comme une rage de dent morale, et je broie avec d'autant plus d'énergie que la douleur est plus vive.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.

The fundamental assumption underlying all software projects is that software is easy to change. If you violate this assumption by creating inflexible structures, then you undercut the economic model that the entire industry is based on. In

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

He was a loner and intellectually intolerant.

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

It was truly his way or the highway.

insisted on having his own way.

Changeless society is characterized by the absense of alternatives.

people decided what they thought and would not be moved, not even by the most patient, the most rational argument.

When you are operating under the influence of an inner vow, you are unteachable and unapproachable. You think you are the genius in a world of stooges.

If you know me at all, I'm stubbornly proud to a fault.

Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.

The Dutchman was hard Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he was stone. His brain was eroded granite where the few ideas he had carved deep their ruts of opinion. There was no way for another idea to seep in, no place for imagination, no place for dreams, none for compassion or mercy or even fear.

Rockefeller was extremely uncompromising on the subject.