Rigid Quotes

290 quotes by 252 authors

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your… — Richard Henry Horne
One of my rigid goals is to keep each book under 300 pages because I think so much nonfiction is literally weighty that people don't… — Thomas Cahill
Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may… — Richard Schmid
No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike;… — Theodore Roosevelt
This is one of man's oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of… — Max Planck
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter… — William Osler
One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had. — Unknown Author
The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from… — David Hare
Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with… — Sophia Lyon Fahs
If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners… — Madame de Stael
In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which… — S. J. Perelman
My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him.… — Bill Vaughan
May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this… — James Madison
And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to… — Robert Fripp
I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard. — Elizabeth Gilbert
I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal… — Steven Cojocaru
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in… — Nhat Hanh
Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they… — Nhat Hanh

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