{"quotes":[{"text":"But why give a man something it's so hard to earn? In that respect women are really thick. They're the daughters of rigidity. They need a man to feel secure but they don't realize that the one thing they should be afraid of is men. They don't know how to run their lives. They have to sacrifice themselves for the sake of someone else. Whores are the worst, patron, believe me. They throw their lives away working for some pimp, smile when he beats them, feel proud when he's well dressed, with his gold teeth and rings on his fingers, and when he goes off and takes up with a woman half their age they forgive him everything because 'he's a man.","author":"Isabel Allende","tags":["feminist","men","mentality","pimps","rigidity","whores","women","women-and-men"],"id":30355,"author_id":"Isabel+Allende"},{"text":"Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...","author":"Gary Rohrmayer","tags":["change","change-life","change-your-life","changes","growth-mindset","growth","leadership","personal-growth","rigid","rigidity"],"id":179809,"author_id":"Gary+Rohrmayer"},{"text":"The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run– without undermining the needs of the moment. Bad presidents simply do what is expedient, heedless of principles. But the worst presidents are those who adhere to the principles regardless of what the fortunes of the moment demand.","author":"George Friedman","tags":["flexibility","ideologues","ideology","rigidity","vision"],"id":181477,"author_id":"George+Friedman"},{"text":"Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with rigidity. Our political and economic and social leaders drool about stability constantly. It's their favorite word, next to 'power.' 'Gotta stabilize the political situation in Southeast Asia, gotta stabilize oil production and consumption, gotta stabilize student opposition to the government' and so forth.Stabilization to them means order, uniformity, control. And that's a half-witted and potentially genocidal misconception. No matter how thoroughly they control a system, disorder invariably leaks into it. Then the managers panic, rush to plug the leak and endeavor to tighten the controls. Therefore, totalitarianism grows in viciousness and scope. And the blind pity is, rigidity isn't the same as stability at all. True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.","author":"Tom Robbins","tags":["chaos","order","rigidity","stability","totalitarianism"],"id":181719,"author_id":"Tom+Robbins"},{"text":"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.","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["closed-mindedness","mind","rigidity"],"id":182561,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"... Who can forget the amazement of a child balancing an adult on a see-saw, simply by being placed at the right position. How could this be? Where did all that extra force come from!?The only wonder nowadays is that a physics student is unlikely to produce a satisfactory answer to this question. Perhaps we will be offered a few mumblings about moments, force times distance, laws of the lever perhaps even the 'principle of virtual work'. But we probably won't get an answer that seems to explain where that extra force comes from; and it is highly unlikely that we will get an answer that begins by establishing principles about rigid bodies, even though the rigidity of the lever is an absolute necessity for it to work.In fact, the whole path from Newton's Laws, which basically concern 'point masses', to bodies whose shape and extent are significant, is often rather dubiously traversed, even though elementary physics courses blithely pose such problems of the most diverse sorts.","author":"Michael Spivak","tags":["lever","moment-of-force","physics","rigidity","science"],"id":218295,"author_id":"Michael+Spivak"},{"text":"...I applied her rule to my life; after all, we are all searching for them, the rules. We pick them up from the strangest places, and if they appear to work once we can live a whole lifetime by them, regardless of the unhappiness and difficulty they may later bring.","author":"Rachel Joyce","tags":["preconceptions","prejudice","rigidity","rules-to-live-by"],"id":223473,"author_id":"Rachel+Joyce"},{"text":"I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?","author":"Dejan Stojanovic","tags":["accept","acceptance","dejan-stojanovic","faith","literature","literature","logic","logical","mathematics","poems","poetry","poetry","quotes","rigidity","thoughts","wisdom","zero"],"id":227855,"author_id":"Dejan+Stojanovic"},{"text":"Wilhelm Reich identified 'armor' as the sum total of typical character attitudes, which an individual develops as a blocking against his emotional excitations, resulting in rigidity of the body, lack of emotional contact, 'deadness'. Functionally identical to muscular armor (chronic muscular spasms).","author":"Wilhelm Reich","tags":["armor","contact","deadness","emotional","emotions","fear","love","orgone","orgonomy","psychiatry","psychology","rigidity"],"id":240700,"author_id":"Wilhelm+Reich"},{"text":"There is nothing like the whites of someone’s eyes to convince you how very true what you believe is, how very much you must act on it.","author":"Jennine Capo Crucet","tags":["activism","rigidity","stubbornness"],"id":260858,"author_id":"Jennine+Capo+Crucet"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}