Rigidity Quotes

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never does.

I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.

Politically, I hated Germany from my youth.

The obstinate Man does not hold Opinions; they hold him.

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

I'm set in my own ways. I like to do the things I want to do when I want to do them.

Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff.

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

Abraham Lincoln and Everett Dirksen understood with singular clarity that a great and diverse people do not speak with a single voice and that adherence to a rigid ideology leaves little room for compromise and response to change.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

When I came into the oil there was chaos. I brought order…. It was done the way it was because that was the way it had to be done.

The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace.

Custom is petrification; nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.

The old order changeth, yielding place to new; And God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world..

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world--and never will.

Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don't believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either.

It’s time to get real. This isn’t a game. People will be hurt by your intransigence.