Quotes About Rigidity

Every muscle he has was as tight as a piano wire.

He wasn't unkind, but he had all Sarkan's obsessive hunger for explanation, with none of his willingness to bend. If Ballo couldn't find it in a book, that meant it couldn't be so, and if he found it in three books, that meant it was the unvarnished truth.

I am girl of definitions, of logic, of black and white. Remember this.

They are so rigid,' he said in a sudden angry voice. 'Why do they not see that this rigidity turns away our greatest minds?

who remained as fixed in the arm-chair as if she had been melted into it when in a liquid state, and could not now be unstuck...

Where uniformity reigns, movement from point to point is no longer movement; and where movement is no longer movement, there is no time.

In a nutshell, Zen is a poetization of life and a vivid expression of the human soul, albeit without the formality, rigidity, and superficiality associated with organized religions.

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

I do possess a certain rigidity, a certain prudishness. I hate it in myself.

The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds....

The Procrustean bed in life consists precisely in simplifying the non-linear and making it linear—the simplification that distorts.

the tendency not to reverse opinions you already have.

They fought about politics. Angelica's husband has ironclad ideas and doesn't like them to be questioned.' 'If they were really ironclad he wouldn't mind discussing them. If he gets that angry, it means his ideas are more like cheese than iron.' (Happiness, As Such)

To be flexible is to be able to respond to change without inappropriate attachments binding one to the past. A clinging to the past in the face of new and changing circumstances is itself a product of insecurity, a lack of self-trust. Rigidity is what animals sometimes manifest when they are frightened: they freeze.

A clinging to the past in the face of new and changing circumstances is itself a product of insecurity, a lack of self-trust. Rigidity is what animals sometimes manifest when they are frightened: they freeze.

the kind of people who can't bend without breaking

always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.-- Everlost

The chopping up of time into rigid periods is an invasion of individual freedom and makes no allowances for differences in temperament and feeling.

that no matter how valid, how vital, one's belief system might be, one undermines that system and ultimately negates it when one gets rigid and dogmatic in one's adherence to it.