Quotes About Rigidity

carved dolls stick to the rules.

When we latch on to an identity, it is easy to take offense. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and feeling and reacting. It doesn't have to be this way. The fact is, I'm not anything in particular. Nor are you. Nor is anyone.

The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.

Not being able or willing to put yourself in someone else's shoes—to view life differently from how you yourself experience it—is the first step toward being not empathic, and this is why so many progressive movements become as rigid and as authoritarian as the institutions they're resisting.

Inflexible convictions are powerful things. But are they a suit of armor or a prison cell? A weapon or a weakness? —EMPEROR JULES CORRINO, strategic briefing on unrest in the former Unallied Planets

The price of purity is purists.

The ice cubes in her voice were clinking mercilessly.

We can do nothing about those who do, those fools who think that dogma equates with truth.

Uncertainty is always uncertain, but the difficulty with people who rely on systems is that they begin to believe that nearly everything is in some way a system and therefore, sooner or later, they become bureaucrats.

The worst part, the worst part, was that Lord de Worde was never wrong. It was not a position he understood in relation to his personal geography. People who took an opposing view were insane, or dangerous, or possibly even not really people. You couldn't have an argument with Lord de Worde. Not a proper argument. An argument, from arguer , meant to debate and discuss and persuade by reason. What you could have with William's father was a flaming row.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

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a rigid adherence to traditional methods is a huge hindrance to innovative problem solving.

Es obvio que los seres humanos poseen una gran capacidad para aferrarse a las falsas creencias con fanatismo y tenacidad, y los científicos racionalistas no son ninguna excepción.

Pliability is life; rigidity is death, whether one speaks of man's body, his mind, or his spirit.

I am very much in favor of fairy tales. Anxiety-provoking things happen, serious things happen, still there is a happy ending. But you don't have to use fairy tales. Let's have a serious story about the Puritans, one that goes beyond turkeys and Thanksgiving. Why not talk about the fact that the Puritans were so rigid the Dutch couldn't stand them and kicked them out? Speak about how undesirable rigity can be and the need for tolerance.

Such, gentlemen, is the inflexibility of sea-usages and the instinctive love of neatness in seamen; some of whom would not willingly drown without first washing their faces.

Se ve qué elásticos se vuelven nuestro rígidos prejuicios una vez que viene a plegarlos el amor.

Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

Curiosity comes out of a sense of safety; rigidity out of being vigilant to threats.

When people get their mind made up about something, then it's: 'Don't bother me with facts.' They've got their minds made up and dismiss you out of hand. Some people don't even give you a fair hearing.

Some people will never change.