Quotes About Stubbornness

When the conventional wisdom of physics seemed to conflict with an elegant theory of his, Einstein was inclined to question that wisdom rather than his theory, often to have his stubbornness rewarded.

The same traits that make them inventive, such as stubbornness and focus, can make them resistant to change when new ideas come along.

I wanted so desperately to prove that I was right, even though all of my efforts were obviously self-sabotaging.

The bigoted, the narrow minded, the stubborn, and the perpetually optimistic have all stopped learning.

Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

An ordinary Haitian mule, it was said, would serve you faithfully for ten years just for the chance to kick your brains in

It liberates the vandal to travel — you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

Aries: "I was going to do that but then you told me to."

It's only cows who never change their opinion.

I know Tiger believed in the idea of the Package. It went along with the sense of destiny his father had passed to him- that he was put on this earth to do something extraordinary with his special qualities, to "let the legend grow" But those qualities, foremost among them an extraordinary ability to focus and stay calm under stress, also included selfishness, obsessiveness, stubbornness, coldness, ruthlessness, pettiness, and cheapness." (132)

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.~Victor Radcliff

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others.

There is no argument with fog. In it's own vague stubbornness, it wields more power than wind, rain, snow, even ice.

Without my knowledge, the mooncalf bedlam of Ireland had filled me with an incurable anxiety, an uncontrollable temper, a tendency to abuse alcohol, a stubbornness I found both repellent and incurable, and a tendency to always think I'm right. What a screwed up legacy this hard-hearted Ireland left to me.

Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.

She was unlike most other girls of her age, in this—that she had ideas of her own, and was stiff-necked enough to set the fashions themselves at defiance, if the fashions didn't suit her views.

I've done what I could; a man that can live as lone as I have and not know when to quit is a fool.

When you're out of willpower, you can call on stubbornness.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress.

A man with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

Others manipulate through pouting, giving others the silent treatment, being secretive or stubborn, conniving behind others' backs, or being intimidating. Whatever the means, their behavior indicates that they place no value on open, straightforward communication; their only concern is that they get their way.