Quotes About Rigidity

Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…"

This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It's a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.

But the institutional mind has only one mental operation: It abhors truth.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Some minds are like concrete - all mixed up and permanently set.

In France, we have a mania for meetings that start very early and finish very late. It wastes time and creates rigidity in schedules. Everyone knows I hate long meetings.

Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.

I think it should be hard to get into the playoff. It really should.

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.

I'm OCD beyond comparison.

I'm not good at making compromises.

I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

When you say you love God, you are saying you love everything. Immature religion becomes an excuse for not loving a whole bunch of things and reveals that you have not had an authentic God experience yet. Rigid religion and compulsive religiosity, all unloving religion, is a rather clear sign that you have not met God! Once you have had a unitive experience with God, reality, or even yourself, your life invariably shows two things: quiet confidence and joyous gratitude.

As Jaroslav Pelikan so wisely put it years ago, " Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living, and I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives Tradition such a bad name."1

But the point, Maya, is that you don't give anyone a second chance. One strike and we're out." "So I'm inflexible and intolerant." "Maybe." "Well, then it's a good thing you're done with me, isn't it?" I headed for the house. Rafe let out a curse.

Fanatic. One who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Look around the martial arts," Lee continued, "and witness the assortment of routine performers, trick artists, desensitized robots, glorifiers of the past. Life is constant movement - rhythmic as well as random. Life is continual change, not stagnation. Instead of choicelessly flowing with this process of change, many 'masters', past and present, rigidly subscribe to traditional concepts and techniques of the art, solidfiying the everflowing, dissecting the totality.

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers' rigidity.

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

People who have strong likes and dislikes find life very difficult; they are as rigid as if they had only one bone.