Rigid Quotes

“Тhe gentle overcomes the rigid.
The slow overcomes the fast.
The weak overcomes the strong."
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"Everyone knows that the yielding overcomes the stiff,
and the soft overcomes the hard.
Yet no one applies this knowledge.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.”
― Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

“There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small event altering the possible outcome of the earth's future. The other view is that time is rigid, and no matter how hard you try, it will always spring back toward a determined present. Myself, I do not worry about such trivialities. I simply sell ties to anyone who wants to buy one...”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“The last and most important part of communication is the ability to say ‘no’.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“I am what I might term an unprejudiced sceptic. I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.”
― William Hope Hodgson

“Auguste Comte, in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by moral more than by legal appliances) a despotism of society over the individual, surpassing anything contemplated in the political ideal of the most rigid disciplinarian among the ancient philosophers.”
― John Stuart Mill

“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“By being rigid, you become temporary; by being flexible, you become permanent!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Never be rigid on an action plan that always fails, freezes and frustrates. Perhaps what you need is a change of your methods you run with the peak velocity!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...”
― Gary Rohrmayer

“She is over sixty, her mind's made up.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“A smile keeps the face round. It makes a perfect gradient in time that transforms the rigid into the pleasing.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“God is a SLENDER.. bender rigid fuck.”
― Deyth Banger

“Love that refutes growth is not love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“Rigidity is the greatest impediment to growth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat