Quotes About Rigid Thinking

#1. Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

Roland Joffe

#2. If you're too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.

Vince Gilligan

#3. Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely. It makes her feel free. Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking. Grace

Liane Moriarty

#4. My son always says I like very weird music.

Cornelia Funke

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

Rudolf Steiner

#6. The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

Lorna Luft

#7. Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

Blythe Danner

#8. We're not perfect, we're not clean cut. We're just trying to be ourselves.

Louis Tomlinson

#9. People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.

Prince Philip

#10. I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.

Adam Beach

#11. I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.

Margaret Mead

#12. When we latch on to an identity, it's easy to take offence. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and reacting.

Steve Hagen

#13. Woe to v those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses, who w trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but x do not look to the Holy One of Israel or consult the LORD!

Anonymous

#14. I think that that's the way the music grows and changes and becomes new and creative and vital. It's by synthesizing elements from all around it and not to maintain this kind of rigid myopic kind of tunnel vision, in a sense, trying to maintain a certain kind of purity, or whatever.

David Sanborn

#15. I think too many times people can get rigid in life, put our blinders on, get locked into one way of thinking, and forget that life has many flavors to savor.

Dave Smalley

#16. Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

Aisha Tyler

#17. My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

Thomas A. Edison

#18. Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

Bertrand Russell

#19. A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives.

James Fallows

#20. Quality is a characteristic of thought and statement that is recognized by a nonthinking process. Because definitions are a product of rigid, formal thinking, quality cannot be defined.

Robert M. Pirsig

#21. I am sad when I think that the years go by like sacks that we mark "Returned Empty," sad when I think that we shall be separated from one another and from ourselves.

Eugene Ionesco

#22. Do unsavory armpits and bad breath make you angry?

Marcus Aurelius

#23. If you're going down the street and you're going the wrong way, remember- God permits U-turns

Suze Orman

#24. When we latch on to an identity, it is easy to take offense. But we offend ourselves. We lock ourselves into very rigid ways of seeing and thinking and feeling and reacting. It doesn't have to be this way. The fact is, I'm not anything in particular. Nor are you. Nor is anyone.

Steve Hagen

#25. It's called "concoctulary,"2 y'all.

Jenny Lawson

#26. But Grace quite likes the fact that you can think something is one way all your life, and it turns out you're wrong, it can be something else entirely. It makes her feel free. Nothing is rigid. Things change. You can change your mind. You can change your thinking.

Liane Moriarty

#27. We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

Sharon Salzberg

#28. 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

#29. Because the story of your life never starts at the beginning.

Monica Wood