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Rigidity Quotes

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

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

Wilhelm Reich
Rigidity
Wilhelm Reich (1961). “The function of the orgasm”

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

Bill James
Causes, Break, Rigidity
"The Mind of Bill James: How a Complete Outsider Changed Baseball". Book by Scott Gray, 2006.

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.

Confucius
Transformation, Process, Rigidity

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.

Robert Mondavi
Country, Rigidity, Dictatorship

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?

George H. W. Bush
Hell, Rigidity, Circumstances
"Preview: The Exclusive PARADE Interview with President and Mrs. Bush". Interview with Mark K. Updegrove, parade.com. July 13, 2012.

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

David Cameron
Able, Speed, Rigidity
"The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's Speech at Bloomberg, 2013, www.independent.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

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

Franz Grillparzer
Women, Rigidity, Disgusting

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.

Carl Sagan
Errors, Views, Rigidity
"Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 184, 1980.

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

Robert Benchley
Laughter, Rigidity, Relieved
Robert Benchley (1947). “Benchley--or else!”

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

Madeleine L'Engle
Rigidity

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 hardness accompany death.

Laozi
Men, Birth, Rigidity

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