All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. — David Cameron 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
“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, we live our lives based on dead men's tale.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin. — Wilhelm Reich 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
Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for… — Anton Myrer 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
Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order.… — Arnold Haultain Copy Share Image
The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to… — Muriel Beadle 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
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
They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal… — Margaret J. Wheatley 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
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
“They are so rigid,' he said in a sudden angry voice. 'Why do they not see that this rigidity turns away our… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most… — James Newman Copy Share Image
The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity. — Douglas Hofstadter 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
“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
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
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 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
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
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