Rigidity Quotes

42 quotes by 42 authors

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not… — David Cameron
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised… — Noam Chomsky
Man at his birth is supple and tender, but in death, he is rigid and hard. Thus, suppleness and tenderness accompany life, but rigidity and… — Laozi
We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability. — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death. — Anthony Lawlor
Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind,… — Anton Myrer
The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A form… — Beauford Delaney
Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in… — Vidal Sassoon
The rigidity of those pledges is something I donâ€™t like. The circumstances change and you canâ€™t be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. Itâ€™sâ€”who… — George H. W. Bush
The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains. — Leon Krier
They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and… — Margaret J. Wheatley
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a… — Thomas Merton
We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is… — Yehudi Menuhin
The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computersâ€™ rigidity. — Douglas Hofstadter
The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they… — Curt Sachs
And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents… — Henri Weenink
The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by… — Anne Fortier
Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of… — Hermann Weyl
[On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven astronauts:] The public… — Freeman Dyson
Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This… — Danny Baker

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