Top 88 Rigid Quotes

I don’t know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We’re very rigid. It’s funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can’t we take little parts of history and mix it together?

We women, we’re always being invited to change our hairstyle, change our clothes, change our wardrobes. It’s also important for us to remember as we age to keep changing the way we think of the world. I’m not saying to be flaky at all; but rather than being rigid about something, stay open and available.

I might say ‘let’s get married’ because I am not rigid, I live moment to moment. These are my views and it is person to person, one should not get influenced with what I am saying.

You can relax more when you’re playing a silly character than when you’re playing a really rigid character. But to be fair, I think George Clooney is a bigger teenager than any of the ‘Twilight’ cast. He’s the guy throwing a football at your head and then hiding around the corner, pretending it wasn’t him!

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

I have grown a lot in this area, but I used to be quite rigid and found it difficult to accept change.

Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.

You still have only one self and one identity. However, self, identity and personality are not things, they are not objects, and they certainly are not rigid. Instead, they are biological processes built within the brain from numerous interactive components, step by step, over a period of time.

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in ‘real’ African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.

I’m interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it’s the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can’t be this way.

Kissing babies and cutting ribbons I tell you, it bores me rigid.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

I didn’t want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King’s Road. If I don’t fade into a room at White’s, that’s fine. My father was chairman of Brooks’ and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

Mr Trump is a different type of leader not burdened by rigid ideology. He does not think like a politician, nor does he talk or sanctimoniously moralise like one, making him an easy target for demonisation. However, he is an empathetic person who recognises the pain of America’s middle class.

I think a lot of people, when the word leadership is used, they think of it as quite forceful and quite a rigid thing. I think people think I am like that. But people can lead in different ways.

To shuck oysters, you’ll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, rigid blade which you can pick up for about ten bucks in a kitchenware shop or fish market. A quick trip online will yield any number of videos and slide shows with step-by-step instructions on how to shuck an oyster.

The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

I’ve had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they’re just too – they’re too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.

The party where humorless thought police work to enforce a rigid ideological discipline isn’t made up of Democrats. It comprises Republicans.

When we went into 2015, we had our way of playing, and we were fairly rigid in what we were doing.

Keynesianism, if you add its flexible, muscular form during the Depression to its more rigid postwar version, lasted forty-five years. Our own Globalization, with its technocratic and technological determinism and market idolatry, had thirty years. And now it, too, is dead.

My father was very methodical about life. He’d always ask me, ‘Now, what’s your system? What’s your schedule like?’ I have no big system, no rigid schedule. When he would ask, ‘How do you do this? Give it to me step by step,’ I’d try to convince him that there were no step-by-steps.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

Some song ideas absolutely require a kind of rigid discipline, and others require absolute chaotic abandon. The form is only valid if you know how to un-form it. I don’t mean to sound like an intellectual here!

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

People claim to be progressive by celebrating curvy bodies – but the standards for those hourglass shapes are equally rigid. They mask that with body positivity – but what about unconventionally attractive bodies?

People who are mean or unkind or rigid – think about it – cannot laugh at themselves.

Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent’s faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.

It’s the old-school jazz mentality that I connect with the most. I dig the idea of the seeker, the guy who’s always trying to figure out why he is doing music and trying to understand and make sense of his instrument in a world which deals with rigid instruction.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

The genteel conservatism of ‘Downton Abbey’ is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs.

Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of ‘high art.’

The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over ‘The Wall Street Journal’ or the ‘Financial Times’ and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.

I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a – not a rigid – but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

Usually I can go for three or four weeks and then I start to bake cakes or make jewellery and I think, ‘hang on a minute, I’m obviously bored rigid. I need to get back out there.’

It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one’s life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol.

We have to move back to the idea that education isn’t about teaching people to bow to rigid rules. That’s not what democracy is about.

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.

I didn’t come from a very rigid background, where there’s a clan or a tribe or a religion.

I’d just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards.

Women throughout history have had to defy rigid conventions about what is and is not expected of them.

My son, who’s on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he’ll often get upset with me because a friend is a ‘good guy’ by definition, in his book.

Some directors are open to ideas, and some are rigid. And, some actors are into method acting, and some, instinctive.

Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid ‘Washington knows best’ answers.

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

One of my travelling bugbears is just people-watching or sticking to a rigid to-do list without venturing further afield.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.