Quotes About Rigidity

Las personas dogmáticas cuentan con un "yo totalitario" que rechaza tajantemente cualquier información distinta a la que ya tienen. Si solamente creo en mí y pienso que los demás están equivocados, la intransigencia se multiplica de manera exponencial.

Para la gente inflexible es muy difícil alcanzar un estado de paz interior. Más aún, es prácticamente imposible estar cerca de una persona rígida, llámese pareja, compañera o compañero de trabajo o de universidad, y no verse afectado negativamente por ella o él.

desconocidas. Existen mentes que parecen de piedra: inmóviles, monolíticas, duras, impenetrables y rígidas, donde la experiencia y el conocimiento se han solidificado de manera sustancial e irrevocable con el paso de los años. Estas mentes ya están determinadas de una vez por todas, ya no aprenden nada distinto a lo que saben, porque su procesamiento obra por acumulación y no por selección.

Como ya dije antes, cuando una mente rígida establece un juicio acerca de alguien o algo permanece anclada o apegada a él de manera obstinada, sin realizar ajustes sustanciales, aunque la experiencia le demuestre lo contrario.

La mente de piedra no se permite dudar y aborrece la autocrítica. Sus fundamentos son inmodificables e indiscutibles.

la suavidad y la flexibilidad están íntimamente relacionadas con la vida, mientras la dureza y la rigidez están asociadas a la muerte.

En consecuencia, el pensamiento rígido que se desprende de ellas será: dogmático (llevado de su parecer), solemne (amargado y circunspecto), normativo (conformista y apegado a las reglas), prejuicioso (odioso y discriminador), simplista (superficial) y autoritario (abusador del poder).

O Jujutsu "O homem, ao nascer, é flexível e fraco; na morte, firme e rígido; assim com as causas: - firmeza e rigidez são as concomitâncias da vida; por este modo, aquele que confia na sua própria força, não será o conquistador.

In the world of The Age of Innocence , a financial disaster or moral scandal would permanently exile a guest from the finest dinner tables. In contemporary New York, a mere change of fashion can eliminate a place setting; therefore, the need to maintain a rigidity not of morals, but of taste, seems all the more desperate.

Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional excitations, resulting in rigidity of the body, lack of emotional contact, "deadness". Functionally identical to muscular armor (chronic muscular spasms)

The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative life.

Unfortunately, dogmatic, unchanging rules are drunken elephants in the house of crystal that is life.

The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.'

I have a flexible mind—I believe it's one of the advantages of growing old," she explained. "I find youth quite rigid at times.

Foster never did anything that was not absolutely correct; this, perhaps, was his real weakness, for it meant that he lacked imagination, both in his work and in handling the men under him.

The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed. Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. When I'm willing to let them change me, something happens between us that's more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.

Totalitarianism of a certain kind, as imagined by Aldous Huxley or George Orwell, is therefore impossible. What the totalitarian project will always produce will be a kind of rigidity and inefficiency which may contribute in the long run to its defeat. We need to remember however the voices from Auschwitz and Gulag Archipelago which tell us just how long that long run is.

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the purposes of a casually ascendant influence.

When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.

The functioning of our society is in a certain way sclerotic.

The system of racial classification is fiction, and we need to thoughtfully evaluate whether perpetuating it rigidly or allowing fluidity across the spectrum best supports human rights and social justice.

Fundamentalists know they are right because they have read the truth in a holy book and they know, in advance, that nothing will budge them from their belief. The truth of the holy book is an axiom, not the end product of a process of reasoning. The book is true, and if the evidence seems to contradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out, not the book.

Fundamentalists know what they believe and they know that nothing will change their minds.