Quotes About Rigidity

When people feel threatened and anxious they become more rigid, and when in doubt they tend to become dogmatic; and then they lose their own vitality. They use the remnants of traditional values to build a protective encasement and then shrink behind it; or they make an outright panicky retreat into the past. But

He was entirely free of what De Gaulle called, in the kitchen Latin of Molière, paralysus respectus, the kind of awed rigidity that seemed to get hold of every Frenchman in the general's presence.

We have, I think, a very rigid and limited definition of what an advantage is. We think of things as helpful that actually aren't and think of other things as unhelpful that in reality leave us stronger and wiser.

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

action, it would result in rigidity and certainty of interpretation, and would make it much easier for tax practitioners like me to manipulate the law to their clients' advantage. The

A planned life is a dead life.

Groups must balance the need to enforce norms with the need to adapt. If the group is unable to enforce social norms, then there will be too much cheating, and cooperation will break down. However, if the group is too rigid in its social norms, then it will fail to adapt to new circumstances.

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.

Angrily, even tearfully, he complained of the divisions within the clergy, where "some be too stiff in their old Mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new Sumpsimus.

I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.

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

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

INFLEXIBILITY + INFLEXIBILITY = MELTDOWN

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

Winter is not so dangerous. I need hardness, cold, rigidity; not this heaviness, as if I'm a melon on a stem, this liquid ripeness.

If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.

A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time.

People froze you in place

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

When we are stuck in our convictions and personas, we enter into the disease of having good ideas and being right.

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while

The general rule in nature is that live things are soft within and rigid without.

Our culture works hard to prevent change.

Mrs. Westcliffe, our headmistress, had a ramrod spine and ebony hair and lips that could pinch off her words with such knife-edged clarity you wondered that you didn't bleed to death from a mere, "Good morning.