Quotes About Rigidity

When you fall in love with the system, you lose the ability to grow.

There's some things where he's already reached the conclusion and it doesn't matter what you say. It doesn't matter what arguments you offer. He's not listening.

Quarles accepted. Dowd thought he and Quarles worked well together. They could meet and talk, whereas Mueller was so rigid, he sometimes seemed like marble.

Why do you make our case (which is hell enough, and we have enough to test us in these coming cruel years) so utterly and absolutely rigid? I can take the even harder horror of letting myself melt into feeling again, and knowing it must freeze again, if only I can believe it is making a minute part of time and space better than it would have been by stubbornly staying always apart when we have so little time to be near.

Neurotypical people seem to think and feel that it's okay to be rigid as long as their ideas are shared by enough people.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it." [As quoted in The New Yorker , April 25, 2011]

In fact you have been as if your arms were tied, without knowing what to do. It appears that you are no better than a wooden image." —The Emperor telling Lin Zexu why he was firing him

A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not.

If you wish to expel religion from our European civilization you can only do it through another system of doctrines, and from the outset this would take over all the psychological characteristics of religion, the same sanctity, rigidity, and intolerance, the same prohibition of thought in self-defense.

It's only when people believe that their beliefs are above questioning, that their beliefs alone are beyond all doubt, that they can be as truly horrible as we all know they can be.

But when we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible but not relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft and true witnesses without being manipulative.

The tendency in legalistic religion is to mistrust God, to mistrust others, and consequently, to mistrust ourselves.

We walk through life as if we had swallowed an Easter candle, rigid and tense, always afraid that things will get out of hand. This reaction is just as harmful as open rebellion, or even more so, because it blocks our way to religious maturation.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of feeble minds

He has no time to be anything but a machine. How

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Nothing exceeds the license occasionally taken by the imagination of very rigid people.

Few changes are allowed in Palm Beach, making it an anachronistic little village where everything looks almost the same as it did years and years ago.

John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

The trouble is that organizations like processes. They are warm, familiar things and can be rolled out fairly easily. It is therefore tempting to understand strategy execution as a process, distribute the forms, get everyone to fill them in, and relax. The result will be resentment, rigidity, and stagnation.

The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.

Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.