Rigidity Quotations

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an active participant, almost like a god. In fact, you could substitute the word 'god' for 'natural selection' in a lot of evolutionary writings and you'd think you were listening to a theologian.

For designers, the rigidity of an alphabet presents a never-ending artistic challenge: How do you do something new and still preserve the letters' essential forms?

If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.

Realistically, the chances of a breakthrough are very slim given the rigidity of the U.S. position on key issues.

Finally we can say that there's a link between the extreme rigidity of the labor code and high unemployment.

Clearly (the legislature) has not been able to support any tax on cigarettes, not to mention a 93-cent tax. And we have to be able to take what we can get. We can't continue to be locked into the rigidity of 93 cents.

I regret that the moral smugness, ideological rigidity and marginalized nature of the peace lobby have left the American public without a credible opposition that can reasonably examine the strategic choices that most certainly await us down the road,

The downward rigidity of nominal wages is often pointed out as a factor that prevents the smooth adjustment of real wages under very low inflation.

This mindless rigidity harms our taxpayers, but most of all our children.

The rigidity of those pledges is something I don’t like. The circumstances change and you can’t be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. It’s—who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway?

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.

In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do.

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.

They (i. e., the Pythagoreans ) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.

When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.