Rigid Quotes

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

A rigid, fanatic, ambitious, selfishly partisan and sectional turncoat with too much genius and too little common sense, who will either die a traitor or a madman.

I'm a very difficult person to live with.

The most closed, control freak, administration I have ever covered.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

There was a perception of me, and I earned it because I was really intense, really gruff. I treated certain people poorly at times. It was because of who I was. It was almost my strength. I came in all business. I tried to find ways to fit in with that demeanor, but it's not easy.

I'm stubborn.

I am very stubborn.

The Vice President is like a man in a cataleptic state. He cannot speak. He cannot move.

I'll be the first one to tell you that I'm not the most casual person.

I don't think, I don't intend to make people miserable. I am demanding.

Daddy was never ruthless but he was tough.

Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.

I'm a very, very stubborn man.

I'm a very by-the-book person.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

If a person is cold and rigid, he feels within himself as if he were in a grave. He is not living, he cannot enjoy this life for he cannot express himself and he cannot see the light and life outside. What keeps man from developing the heart quality? His exacting attitude. He wants to make a business of love. He says, 'If you will love me, I will love you.' As soon as a man measures and weighs his favors and his services and all that he does for one whom he loves, he ceases to know what love is. Love sees the beloved and nothing else.

Audiences can be very judgmental.

You can't be rigid in this business [politics].

My father was a very difficult man.

I've been called 'hardheaded,' 'obstinate,' 'unreasonable,' etc.

I like to be very, very regimented and very OCD in my routine.