Quotes About Rigidity

Maybe people really don't change as much as we think. Maybe they just... maybe they just stiffen up.

Evangelicals love the Bible. They live their entire lives by it. But they have hugged the Bible so tightly that they have suffocated it.

Wasn't the camp itself, with all the rigidity of its organization, its absurd violence, its meticulous hierarchy, just a metaphor, a reductio ad absurdum of everyday life?

Fundamentalism—the intellectual style, not the religious movement—is the strong disinclination to take seriously the notion that you might be wrong.

Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.

En España, la movilidad es muy difícil: te marcan de por vida en la casilla que creen que te corresponde.

Medicine is remarkably conservative to the point of being properly characterized as sclerotic, even ossified.

fussy, over-formalized way

I'm a firm believer in thinking inside the box. The first thing I do when approaching a new project is to give myself rigid guidelines and precise limits. That's how I begin to think. If I were told that I could create anything in any medium, using any amount of space and any amount of time, I'd stand in a field and scream.

A small number of persons with idiopathic Parkinson's disease respond to long-term use of zolpidem with reduced bradykinesia and rigidity. Zolpidem dosages of 10 mg four times daily may be tolerated without sedation for several years.

Eres demasiado seria, Amy, eres demasiado rígida, Amy, le das demasiadas vueltas a las cosas, lo analizas todo demasiado, has dejado de ser divertida, me haces sentir inútil, Amy, haces que me sienta mal, Amy». Me fue arrancando cachos a golpe de indiferencia: mi independencia, mi orgullo, mi autoestima. Yo di y él tomó y tomó y tomó. Me eliminó de la existencia.

Fanatics always seem to have the same scrubbed and staring look about them. They have the look of people who do not masturbate, but who think about it almost all the time.

The clear, unmistakable sign of a bureaucrat is somebody who worries about whether he has a window.

The worst thing when you're working is to say, 'I have a question,' and the other person goes, 'No! This is what it is.' That kind of rigidity is very challenging because musicals are constantly mutating.

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

Qué poca piedad me inspiran los que son incapaces de cambiar de lugar, excepto como turistas, aquellos para los que lo nuevo viene siempre de afuera y siempre como curiosidad o diversión, los que son lo que son a rajatabla, los empeñados en el peñasco, en la tristeza del efecto.

I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.

While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a person becomes more fixed.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

Rigidity is always the opposite of the search for truth.

This is England, he explained. Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.

That's the problem with bureaucrats. They think everything is negotiable." The

When we latch on to an identity, it's easy to take offence. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and reacting.

When we latch on to an identity, it's easy to take offense. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and feeling and reacting.