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
Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition Â… we lose something of the ability to… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
“I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?” — Dejan Stojanovic 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
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
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
A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Remember that the six most expensive words in business are: 'We've always done it that way' — Catherine DeVrye Copy Share Image
In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas. — Michael Crichton 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
The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains. — Leon Krier 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
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
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
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
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
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social… — Ted Nelson 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
