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Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death. -- Anthony Lawlor
Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes. -- Vidal Sassoon
Rigidity is the enemy of acting. And I think that people who stay up all night focusing on every beat they're going to do the next day always end up getting screwed. -- Jay Baruchel
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. -- Pope Paul VI
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good. -- Rachel Cusk
The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do. -- David Cameron
Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break. -- Bill James
Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin. -- Wilhelm Reich
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
If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price. -- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media. -- Noam Chomsky
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. -- Mark Twain
The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life. -- Leo Tolstoy
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
Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature. -- Hermann Weyl
Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve. -- Thane Rosenbaum
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover. -- Thomas Merton
Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases. -- John Chamberlain
They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories; they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting. -- Arnold Haultain
My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic. -- Manolo Blahnik
I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world. -- Andrea Hirata
The difference between management and administration (which is what bureaucrats used to do exclusively) is the difference between choice and rigidity. -- Robert Heller
Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older. -- Gail Sheehy
I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot. -- Rene Burri
When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules. -- Charles Kennedy
For designers, the rigidity of an alphabet presents a never-ending artistic challenge: How do you do something new and still preserve the letters' essential forms? -- Virginia Postrel
The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace. -- Bob Simon
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media. -- Noam Chomsky
I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums. -- Imogen Heap
Reagan is held up to us as an example of never raising taxes. Correction: Reagan raised taxes six of his eight years as president. Why? He was a pragmatist, not doctrinaire. He saw problems emerging, and when his policies faltered he changed his views. Flexibility, not rigidity. -- Eugene Jarecki
I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works. -- Rand Paul
The trick is: how do you talk about natural selection without implying the rigidity of law? We use it as almost an active participant, almost like a god. In fact, you could substitute the word 'god' for 'natural selection' in a lot of evolutionary writings and you'd think you were listening to a theologian. -- Greg Graffin
If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense. -- Joanna Scott
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Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible. -- Marianne Moore
All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching. -- Robert Benchley
The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computersâ?? rigidity. -- Douglas Hofstadter
The rigidity of a bottle's form does not affect the fluidity of the liquid it contains. -- Leon Krier
In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness. -- Ai Weiwei
In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas. -- Michael Crichton
Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure. -- Georges St-Pierre
I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless. -- Franz Grillparzer
The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. -- David Cameron
Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught. -- Agnes Repplier
When we fail to harmonize and integrate, living systems, from individuals to families and countries, tend to move toward either chaos or rigidity. -- Tobin Hart
We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability. -- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
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
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
You can't make Christ funny. He's self-aware, he's too flexible within the situation. It's rigidity, it's when the ego takes over and the behavior becomes inappropriate that it becomes funny. -- John Cleese
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And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness! -- Henri Weenink
You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing. -- Paul Greengrass

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