Top 151 Rigor Quotes & Sayings

We just can't shake monogamy. It definitely demands a kind of rigor and discipline and selflessness. But it's also fun.

Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

How to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education.

They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit the dictates of their intuition. In short, they broke all the laws of rigor and of mathematical decorum. The veritable orgy which followed the introduction of the infinitesimals... was but a natural reaction. Intuition had too long been held imprisoned by the severe rigor of the Greeks. Now it broke loose, and there were no Euclids to keep its romantic flight in check.

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.

Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.

Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.

Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.

I particularly like the catchphrase of Leonardo Da Vinci: Ostinato Rigore! (Which means, pretty much, Relentless Rigor).

The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.

In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

As much as I like teaching and students, it's a kind of rigor, a discipline, that's against my body.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.

Generally, I'm not writing about genomes or anything like that. But people underestimate the creativity you use in science and the rigor you need in music. They basically have the same path.

Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.

Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

Goku: But I'm so hungry, I have rigor mortis!

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.

It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.

But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.

In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.

Christianity began as a religion of the poor and dispossessed - farmers, fishermen, Bedouin shepherds. There's a great lure to that kind of simplicity and rigor - the discipline, the call to action.

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.

Rigor is always appropriate when investing in markets, whatever the ultimate conclusions may be.

Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

There is a higher degree of operational excellence and rigor demanded of Stripe than of most companies.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.

There is no rigorous definition of rigor.

He manages to balance Rigor and Mercy.

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.

Oftentimes, successful brands can lose discipline or become complacent over time, applying less rigor to the cost control and returns on investment.

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.

If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.

Madrid's players are carried along by the football itself, what they feel in each moment; they're not guided by tactical rigor or a specific structure.

I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return.

Whatever you think rigor looks like, you should go up a few notches.

In the late 1960s, the New Classical economists saw the same weaknesses in the microfoundations of macroeconomics that have motivated me. They hated its lack of rigor. And they sacked it.

I find that the work I do as an actor that's most challenging commands an athleticism or, certainly, a physicality. And also a rigor, a physical rigor.

What gets projects done for me is not inspiration. It's curiosity and rigor.

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

As I looked across the company, there are three things that keep coming up that we need to work on: culture, our operating rigor, and capital allocation.