Quotes About Rigidity

Be firm on principle but flexible on method.

When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

Why do we resist the mystery that change brings? When we get too rigid and inflexible, rigor mortis of the soul sets in. For proof of this, we need look no further than to those who choose to stay in a relationship or job long after the soul, or life force, that originally brought it passion and joy has vacated the premises.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Dogmatism is the anti-Christ of learning.

You know the saying: a hard man is good to find.

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

I cannot revere compromise; I cannot revere pragmatism; I long for ideologues.

The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity.

when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

So was his intolerance of dissenting opinions.

Your task is to let go of the rigidity that takes hold of you as you overidentify with the expected gender role. Power lies in exploring that middle range between the masculine and the feminine, in playing against people's expectations.

People do not advertise their rigidity. You will only trip up against it if you try to introduce a new idea or procedure. Some in the group—the hyper-rigid—will become irritable, even panicky at the thought of any kind of change. If you press your case with logic and reason, you will tend to make them even more defensive and resistant.

With experience comes a determination to be set in your ways, to avoid new experiences.

Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment to previous values. In motorcycle maintenance, you MUST rediscover what you do as you go. Rigid values makes this impossible.

When any distribution is locked into a rigid sequential format it develops Joes that dictate what new changes will be allowed and what will not, and that rigidity is deadly.

What is perceptible to one's mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of it, the pre-formations passed down by generation after generation, the ready-made language not only of the tongue but also of the sensations and the feelings.

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right

Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

Science does not permit exceptions.

Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

Rigidity of order is the artefact and sediment of the human agents ' freedom.