Rigidify Quotes

#1. We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.

Chip Conley

#2. The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence.

Simon Travaglia

#3. The enlightened being can look through states of mind, but they are also outside of them.

Frederick Lenz

#4. It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

Mark Twain

#5. When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through catharsis. I think that's what I do well, and observation.

Michael Stipe

#6. I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.

Phil Anselmo

#7. I have come to believe that politicians are in the business of 'marketing' their product to the public, by exaggerating threats and over-selling government solutions.

Arnold Kling

#8. I stayed in New York City for the first time, I'd always wanted to do that.

Amy Sedaris

#9. It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

Victor Hugo

#10. I cannot find it in me to believe that God enjoys long faces and scowls at merriment.

Madeleine L'Engle

#11. Hi, this is Sylvia. I'm not at home right now, so when you hear the beep ... hang up.

Nicole Hollander

#12. Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#13. When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that I should have been answering.

Robert B. Weide

#14. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Thomas Carlyle