Rigid Quotes
290 quotes by 255 authors
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A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.
— Richard Kinder
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We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more…
— John Cleese
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... the growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part of…
— Julia Lathrop
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Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency…
— Rosy Cole
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The recognized achievements of some Negroes, despite rigid racial barriers, indicate that society by its prejudices may be depriving itself of valuable contributions from many…
— Kenneth Clarke
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Love always seeks for betterment, for ways of making life more workable, joyful, whole, and beautiful. Love examines every option available to bring about an…
— Glenda Green
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If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the apex…
— Joost Meerloo
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I have never in my life encountered a religion as oppressive, cold, and stiff as Progressivism. I've never known a faith more eager to burn…
— Matt Walsh
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When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to…
— Geena Rocero
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The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.
— Herbert Hoover
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The future of nations cannot be frozen . . . cannot be foreseen. If we are going to accomplish anything in our time we must…
— Herbert Hoover
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Many of us understand giving, but some of us may still be confused about the meaning of forgiveness. Some people may go through life in…
— John Templeton
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I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with…
— Ted Kulongoski
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I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism…The greatest crimes…
— Saul Alinsky
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Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so…
— Roy Lichtenstein
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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart.
— Sri Chinmoy
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Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the…
— Pema Chodron
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If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to…
— Pema Chodron
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And I have to say, I agree with some of the criticisms that some have made about that state program which allocates the grant money…
— Michael Chertoff
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