Rigid mindset Quotes

The obstinate Man does not hold Opinions; they hold him.

Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things; I just didn't think about them.

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

I think that the people who are the loudest about wanting to change you are the people with the least amount of vision and creativity.

We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.

An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined in advance of the particular experience or observation. They are derived from the ideology, and not subject to the facts.

I refuse to adapt or integrate myself.

All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.

Professional opinion is skeptical about anything that doesn't fit in with the version of reality it has been programmed to believe in. The skepticism comes from a lack of understanding and the need to defend the status quo and not from actual knowledge of the subject.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool.

It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do.

I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.

. . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's no need to keep on about it. There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.

[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.

I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.

Things like lack of leadership and a lack of the willingness to evolve, they’re so used to keeping people within the constraints of the idea that has been the same idea for a thousand years.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.