Quotes About Rigidity

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

God made white people boring, then yawned and they all turned to stone.

Mountbatten was stunned by the rigidity of Jinnah's position. 'I never would have believed,' he later recalled, 'that an intelligent man, well-educated, trained in the Inns of Court, was capable of simply closing his mind

Inflexible things break, sometimes spectacularly, when stressed.

Rigid people are dangerous people.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status

It is time to realize, however, that the real dangers to America today come not from the newly rich people of East Asia but from our own ideological rigidity, our deep-seated belief in our own propaganda.

It had more corners in it than the brain of an obstinate man;

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

In relation to therapeutic issues where we are manufacturing our own pain, the pain must be understood as a failure of creativity. The response to a certain situation has rigidified. We have lost our ability to create new responses for new situations. We do not understand how we have participated in creating our pain. We are no longer able to recognize new situations when they occur.

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Unfortunately, we live in a country where different opinions are no longer acceptable. There's no point arguing with someone who thinks they are right without believing they could ever be wrong.

Anxiety is treated by a search for certainty. And certainty – wherever we think we've found it – will lead to dogma. And wherever we have dogma, in time, it leads to rigidity. And that rigidity ultimately leads to idolatry.

Doubt is a form of radical relationship to and respect for mystery. The absence of doubt is a very scary thing. What that leads to is psychological, political, economic, spiritual fundamentalism. It leads to rigidity. It leads to a profound defense of the ego's security needs above all things [...] The absence of doubt ultimately leads to a violation of the mystery itself.

Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

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When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why folks over thirty develop rigid thought patterns and tend to be less innovative. People get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them, he said. At age forty-five, Jobs was now about to get out of his groove.

Physicists are not used to trimming or compromising their equations in order to get them accepted. Which is why they do not make good politicians. At

Denial of the Child Within and the subsequent emergence of a false self or negative ego are particularly common among children and adults who grew up in troubled families, such as those where chronic physical or mental illness, rigidity, coldness or lack of nurturing were common.

It's only cows who never change their opinion.

He wasn't a man, but a tape recorder, repeating catch phrases and old slogans without any thought to the concepts behind them, a dog stuck in the training of his youth and faithfully executing his tasks long after his master had moved on.