Quotes About Rigidity

La fidelidad: ¿indispensable o necesaria? Lo segundo es más hermoso, implica opción, no tiene la fealdad de la norma. Entre lo indispensable y lo necesario corre un chorro de agua prístina que no solo refresca, sino que arremete contra la rigidez, la ablanda, la amolda y la baña de una superficie que al endurecerse la convierte en confitura y no en piedra.

Lighten up" (don't) turn prayer into a work but listen for God and let oneself be surprised. Overly rigid adherence to a spiritual direction built around formal liturgical adherence and highly structured prayer time can work against the sanctification of the ordinary. Christ is effectively imprisoned, to be visited at stated times and otherwise ignored".

...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

In triunal rigidity, your three brains become aligned with a reality that isn't the one you're currently facing. This leaves you trapped in thought patterns that don't make sense in the present and stops you from accurately processing changes in the future. The result? Chronically crazy behavior—that is, doing the same things over and over and expecting a new reality to change back into the old reality in which those things worked.

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

What we eventually run up against are the forces of humourlessness, and let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.

Science progresses. Ideology tends to linger unchanged, and often unquestioned.

Welch insisted on personal loyalty and top-down control. Birch Society chapters were rigidly organized. Members were directed in secret to pursue political office. Birchers were drawn not only to Welch's anti-Communist message but also to his description of a world where sinister elites were behind everything that had gone wrong in the country.

Those that can't change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious!

He was a tree stump of a man, limited in his outlook but rooted and unshakeable in his certainties.

When a field becomes too self-referential and cut off from reality, it runs the risk of becoming irrelevant. It is often dissatisfaction with the rigidity of domains that makes great creative advances possible.

Men i Herrens sted plasserte han seg selv. Og det var den verste formen for læstadianisme, den kaldeste, den mest nådeløse. Læstadianismen uten Gud.

Cuando se lleva a cabo la burocratización total de una administración —concluía—, se establece una forma de relación de poder que es prácticamente inquebrantable.»

The more illogical a fool's position, the more passionate he's likely to be about hanging on to it.

Indeed, there was something hard and unforgiving and almost brutal among those who considered themselves the most piously stringent in their observance, something ugly and positively vicious in their unrelenting persecution of those who deviated from their standards.

fluidity of the sea, not the rigidity of irresistible law, characterizes human conduct, especially in the midst of a calamity.

We get so set in our ways, you know? I mean, when you meet someone in your teens, like you two did, well, you're still growing, aren't you? You automatically adjust so that you fit together. But when you're my age, all the likes and dislikes are set in stone. That's the trouble.

Civilization is the ultimate destiny of the Culture… Civilizations are the most external and artificial states of which a species of developed humanity is capable. They are a conclusion, the thing-become succeeding the thing-becoming, death following life, rigidity following expansion… petrifying world-city following mother-earth and the spiritual childhood.

When it comes to essential things, no one is tolerant.

If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.

Such people are not known for their sense of humour and lightness of touch; they rarely break a smile. To them, change is always suspect and usually damnable, and they hardly ever contribute to human development.