Lack of Flexibility Quotes

There is nothing more dangerous than a person with only one right answer.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity

What's wrong with Singapore is the idea that things need to be done in a certain way or not at all. Black or white. No room for alternative discussion.

We know the only fish that goes with the flow is a dead fish.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you.

I think I could have worked as a technical director. But in this role, you can't attend training or say anything for fear it won't suit the coach, directors, or media. I don't think I want a job like that.

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

Poor leaders have a certain style and that's the only style they have.

There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man's beliefs never will.

I think institutions that are bureaucratic often try to squeeze from the top down, and they don't have good results on the ground level.

U.N.-orchestrated gatherings are typically the death of all spontaneity and innovation.

I think we can be very narrow-minded in this country; you see something that someone's done and immediately want them to do the same thing again - but if they don't, they're criticised for not doing the same thing again, but if they do they're just repeating themselves.

For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers.

Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my decisions too definite.