Quotes About Rigidity

For him life has to go the certain way, otherwise he's not interested.

Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...

The great danger of maturation is calcification.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

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

People can change, but systems cannot without losing their structural integrity.

Although this is a reasonable use for massage, people with an achieving rigid structure must, because of their pattern, see it as the only reason. Ironically, this particular structure of rigidity rejects any good feeling or pleasure that does not come from their own actions

Rigidity causes inflexibility to a change. Therefore, be less rigid in all your undertakings in order to be or become more flexible to adopt and adapt to a change. Besides that, it's often ideal to be less rigid and more flexible.

Old maids who have never yielded in their habits of life or in their characters to other lives and other characters, as the fate of woman exacts, have, as a general thing, a mania for making others give way to them.

in order to grab on to those tiny profits people studiously adopt another perspective, keeping their true opinions to themselves, and no one takes responsibility, everyone just huddles together on some middle ground, and it all gets less and less clear, yet in the end everyone ends up being crammed into a rigid, unyielding framework. I've seen the same story play out over and over again. But

Every repetition of the choice only hardened the issue.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

Fundamentalists have their heads in the sand.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.' One

Cambiar una ortodoxia por otra no supone necesariamente un avance. el enemigo es la mentalidad de gramófono, tanto si a uno le gusta el disco que está sonando en ese momento como si no.

Ortodoxia înseamn? a nu gândi - a nu avea nevoie s? gândeÈ™ti. Ortodoxia înseamn? lipsa conÈ™tiinÈ›ei.

Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness

La ortodoxia equivale a no pensar, a no tener la necesidad de pensar. La ortodoxia es la inconsciencia (cap 5, primera parte - 1984)

Zeal was not enough. Orthodoxy was unconsciousness.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

It's easy to get tired of religious fundamentalists. They're such a bore. They have no sense of mystery. It's a drag, man.

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.