In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break. — Bill James Copy Share Image
The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity. — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters… — Paul Greengrass Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity.… — John Chamberlain Copy Share Image
And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because… — Henri Weenink Copy Share Image
Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they… — Thane Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
“when people encounter a significant threat, a response called “threat rigidity” sets in. The instinct of threat rigidity is to cease being… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool.… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Growing up is difficult. Strangely, even when we have stopped growing physically, we seem to have to keep on growing emotionally, which… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
The economic union - creating a big common market, like the United States, so that you can compete across borders. There are… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Although this is a reasonable use for massage, people with an achieving rigid structure must, because of their pattern, see it as… — Elliot Greene Copy Share Image
Very, very slowly, the dwarf remnants of what was once our mighty sun will cool and dim, until it embarks on its… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Copy Share Image
The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Wilhelm Reich identified "armor" as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world. — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure. — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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