Quotes About Stubbornness

it myself!" These are the words that I would hear from my grandson when, as a toddler, he would try to pour juice from a large container into a cup. Grownups aren't much different. It is a well-documented fact that no one of my gender will ever ask for directions. I'm not lost. I can find it myself.

entrenched disbelief is oddly immune to evidence.

Navani Kholin was not some timid, perfect ideal. She was a sour storm of a woman, set in her ways, stubborn as a boulder rolling down a mountain, and increasingly impatient with things she considered foolish. He loved her the most for that.

I think you underestimate the stubbornness a crown can press into a man

I think you underestimate the stubbornness a crown can press into a man or woman's mind.

We'll do it. Somehow we'll make them listen - even if they got their fingers planted firmly in their ears. Makes one wonder how they manage it, with their heads rammed up their own backsides.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of feeble minds

At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.

We're bound by our desire to be right.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

The dogmatist within is always worse than the enemy without.

He was the sort of man who only wanted to be told what he already assumed was true.

Déjalo. Si eso es lo que verdaderamente siente, nada de lo que le digamos le va a hacer cambiar de opinión, y cabezota como es, nos iba a seguir de cualquier modo.

It was like a fingernail on a dead man's hand that kept growing when all other life had ceased.

It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia.

I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.

If you don't like it, then y'can jolly well lump it.

They may be years ahead of the human race but we've got one thing they haven't -- bloodymindedness! It built this planet. (UFO: Time Lash)

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

The worst part, the worst part, was that Lord de Worde was never wrong. It was not a position he understood in relation to his personal geography. People who took an opposing view were insane, or dangerous, or possibly even not really people. You couldn't have an argument with Lord de Worde. Not a proper argument. An argument, from arguer , meant to debate and discuss and persuade by reason. What you could have with William's father was a flaming row.

THE GIRL WAS TWENTY-THREE POUNDS OF NO! NO, BED! NO, SLEEP! No, no, no!

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

The sun is a pretty stubborn guy, and he'll rise each day just to spite you.