Quotes About Rigidity

I have grown a lot in this area, but I used to be quite rigid and found it difficult to accept change.

I don't like schedules.

Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.

Few things in war can be as costly as doctrinal rigidity.

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Newton's First was a real bitch, not open to negotiation.

But I say with sorrow that I fear these wooden people, whose view of the world is rigid and unchangeable, who are stupidly self-confident, and have no hesitations, worse than death.

These people's souls are dead: their thoughts are fixed in straight inflexible lines; and they are merciless as only a convinced and stupid man can be.

Fundamentalists don't know how to make exceptions.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Dogmatisms have power.

Many asses have only two legs.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

We must never bend too much.

I was a purist bore.

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.

One of the greatest struggles of bureaucracies is they get built and created, but they design themselves in such a way that they can never be at fault. They can never be wrong, they can never have made a mistake and they never want to relent.

Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in its lifeless rigidity, or it will be neat wordplay, where one opinion will triumph one day and the opposite the next. Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice.

Distortion of view takes place when we hold so deeply to our viewpoint that not even known facts can sway our beliefs.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

Quién no ha tenido que aguantarse alguna vez a un "experto" que se toma muy en serio a sí mismo y piensa que sus conocimientos son la sapiencia encarnada? Una de las características de la inflexibilidad mental es la solemnidad, que se manifiesta, abierta o soterradamente, como una fobia a la alegría.

Las personas se podrían ubicar en un continuo de tal manera que podríamos hallar gente más o menos rígida, flexible o líquida, o con el predominio de un tipo de mente y pequeñas pinceladas de las otras.