Quotes About Stubbornness

Behind the studied blankness of her gaze, revolt must have been simmering. I recognized that surliness, that stubbornness, that captive-princess indignation, which must be kept hidden until enough weapons have been collected.

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When we are stuck in our convictions and personas, we enter into the disease of having good ideas and being right.

I want that boy, the one who won't do what you try to force him to do.

Mind control won't work on those who are really hardheaded. You know… Creatures like you.

Fine, then, stay here and keep our seats warm while your ass expands to the size of your ego. (Todd)

What are you doing here? (Terri) I'll tell you if you tell me why you're here. (Nathan) No. Leave. (Terri) No. You leave. (Nathan) What are we? Four? (Terri)

I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of.

He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.

I'm too set in my ways to start doing the right thing," he complained. "You're a bad influence, Horace.

Jij weet toch wel hoe koppig de vrouwen in jouw gezin kunnen zijn als ze zich iets hebben voorgenomen?

It took a couple more weeks, and a commitment to being a real pain in the ass...

I'll not listen to reason…. Reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

He was so narrow minded that if he fell on a pin it would blind him in both eyes.

I will please shut the hell up the day you please drop the hell dead

I think my whole deal was I didn't think other people had a right to an opinion. I think the problem I had was, in real life, it was my way or the highway, and if people disagreed with me, then they were just wrong.

Rule Number One is this: If you're open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you're defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the clues—boom! Sledgehammer.

In this stupid world most people never consider that a thing is good to be done unless it is done by their own set.

When I was on the practice squad, it felt like I was just a guy who came in off the street three days a week to help actual NFL players get better. It was unsettling, unfulfilling and there were a few times when I wondered whether I would get my shot. But I kept showing up and kept competing. I was too stubborn to stop believing in myself.

She sighed. "Have I ever told you that you're impossible?" His smile was wonderfully wicked. "Have I ever told you that there is no such thing as impossible?

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use trying to teach them anything new. 'They're closed for business even though, somewhat confusingly, their doors open at eleven, Monday through Friday,' Dad said. And the trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting, because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably.

When Mr. Dove had once been positive, no man on earth was more positive. It behoved him, therefore, to be right when he was positive; and though whether wrong or right he was equally stubborn, it must be acknowledged that he was seldom proved to be wrong