Quotes about Rigidity
When we are stuck in our convictions and personas, we enter into the disease of having good ideas and being right.
— Anne Lamott
A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.
— Kent Hughes
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
— Samuel Johnson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It's a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.
— Jason Fried
The only completely consistent people are the dead.
— Aldous Huxley
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null,Dead perfection, no more.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.
— Deepak Chopra
Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.
— Joyce Meyer
every uncompromising ideology reduces faith to an idolatry
— Walter Brueggemann
Foster never did anything that was not absolutely correct; this, perhaps, was his real weakness, for it meant that he lacked imagination, both in his work and in handling the men under him.
— Dorothy Sayers
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson