Top 106 Inflexible Quotes & Sayings

You adhere to a philosophy, but part of the philosophy I have is that I don't want to be too doggone inflexible that I miss a good player.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Historians spend their days engaged in the literally endless task of reshaping and expanding our view of the past, while statues are fixed and inflexible.

It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

Time is inelastic and inflexible. Time is indispensable. No achievement is possible without time.

Very often, organizations are inflexible because there is too little communication between functions; they are too segregated.

I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities.

The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible.

I have my own rules and adhere to them. The rule is simple but inflexible. A James Stewart picture must have two vital ingredients. It will be clean and it will involve the triumph of the underdog over the bully.

Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

Ultimately, leadership is about the strength of one's convictions, the ability to endure the punches, and the energy to promote an idea. And I have found that those who do achieve peace never acquiesce to obstacles, especially those constructed of bigotry, intolerance, and inflexible tradition.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.

I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te.

Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.

The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.

I think justices of all stripes agree that stare decisis is important, but not an inextricable command. It's not inflexible; it's not absolute.

I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity itself.

So much in life seems inflexible and unchangeable, and part of the joy of running and especially racing is the realization that improvement and progress can be achieved.

The biggest challenge is adding the bureaucracy it takes to run the company without becoming fat, lazy, inflexible - bureaucratic.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.

If you are inflexible in the body, look at what you are holding onto unnecessarily in your life. Release tension, and life will open up.

I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive to other people's needs - and it's just paralysing.

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country.

This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.

We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom oEurope until they become the veritable beacon oits salvation.

To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock.

The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

Public school teachers enjoy a huge amount of job security, thanks to their powerful unions and inflexible work rules.

The family I grew up in was very inflexible and harsh. It left me with the feeling that if you do let somebody down badly, then even if they tell you it's all right, it cannot be all right.

Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.

As you grow older, you become - everybody becomes - less inflexible and a little more accommodating.

I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant ,and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.

Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.

Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law.

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.