Most of nature is inherently chaotic. It's not rigidly determined in the old sense. It's not rigidly predictable.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.
Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but seporate.
Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.
In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear.
The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
The essence of the expert is that his field shall be very special and narrow: one of the ways in which he inspires confidence is to rigidly limit himself to the little toe; he would scarcely venture an off-the-record opinion on an infected little finger.
It is not coincidental that for so-called religious fundamentalists - whether they are Western or Eastern, Muslim or Christian - rigid male dominance and "holy wars" are priorities. Or that competing sects of the same religion, such as Sunni and Shia, are at each other's throats. In these cultures, women are rigidly controlled by men.
The prohibition amendment to the Constitution requires the Congress. and the President to provide adequate laws to prevent its violation. It is my duty to enforce such laws. To prevent smuggling, the Coast Card should be greatly strengthened, and a supply of swift power boats should be provided. The major sources of production should be rigidly regulated, and every effort should be made to suppress interstate traffic. . . It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation.
My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
If you're dealing with heavy topic matter, sometimes it's good to have a lightness going into it because it allows you to be open to possibilities, rather than getting rigidly stuck into a certain mind-set. People are strange. When you break up, sometimes you end up laughing with one another, as opposed to crying. Things in life are unusual, and to find those things, it's best to be relaxed.
