Top 542 Rigid Quotes & Sayings

At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion.

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of a camera was all television, which is pretty rigid script-wise, except for the occasional scene where you toss in an ad-lib just to elongate something. Like, say, you're walking down a hall and you just don't have enough dialogue, and you throw in something. But you don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed.

As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron is no working hypothesis, but a working hindrance. Approaching Maxwell's equations with the concept of the rigid electron seems to me the same thing as going to a concert with your ears stopped up with cotton wool. We must admire the courage and the power of the school of the rigid electron which leaps across the widest mathematical hurdles with fabulous hypotheses, with the hope to land safely over there on experimental-physical ground.

The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies.

I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical. I wouldn't wear makeup, and I didn't like to let boys open the door for me because I felt like it was sexist. My heart was in the right place, but I was such a tiny dictator about it. It's embarrassing to me now because I was so rigid. It's such a rigid way of looking at the world. There's something very young about that mind-set.

I'm not flailing now, as my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

YA readers are just not rigid about genre. They're all for the mash-up.

Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

Only the clever men can be flexible; others are condemned to remain as rigid!

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

I do not usually follow a rigid fitness regimen, and most of it depends upon what goals I have in my mind.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Proper names are rigid designators.

Play is free movement within a more rigid structure.

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own

There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems.

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

Softening what is rigid in our hearts.

I'm almost a vegetarian. I have a very rigid exercise routine. I'm up at 6 A.M.; I take a lot of ginseng.

I hate everything that is rigid. I need freedom.

When knowledge becomes rigid, it stops living.

Kissing babies and cutting ribbons I tell you, it bores me rigid.

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

Yes, I can be rigid and adamant about a point of view.

People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion.

People are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations.

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

I have grown a lot in this area, but I used to be quite rigid and found it difficult to accept change.

Team members who feel threatened but who are not aware of it become rigid - and that stops teamwork.

What I had heard about TV is that it's very rigid - that you have to hit your mark, look a certain way, do certain things, that there is no freedom artistically - and that's my worst nightmare. I don't work well in rigid environments.

There were so many great teachers that had so much to offer. The idea of being rigid, why would you do that? People have their things, but why be rigid with any education when you can take things from here and take things from there?

We have such a rigid idea of what heterosexuality is and that's problematic. We have such a rigid idea of what gay is and that's also problematic.

When I adopted Buddhism, my master taught me not to be so rigid.

I can be very stubborn, cold, strict, rigid, and - I'd like to think - driven.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

Nothing is rigid, and everything is movable.

The culture will not be able to persist in light of the rigid systems of its own innocence.

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Let's call something a rigid designator if in every possible world it designates the same object, a non-rigid or accidental designator if that is not the case. Of course we don't require that the objects exist in all possible worlds.... When we think of a property as essential to an object we usually mean that it is true of that object in any case where it would have existed. A rigid designator of a necessary existent can be called strongly rigid.

The rigid tree will be felled.

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

I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.

Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity.