Quotes About Stubbornness

In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.

I'm such a strong-headed person and so stubborn, I don't need someone to be sweet to me.

He was like the mule in the story that kept running into trees; he wasn't blind, he was just so mad he didn't give a damn.

how slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness.

When all economists are equally open-minded and are willing to incorporate important variables in their work, even if the rational model says those variables are supposedly irrelevant, the field of behavioral economics will disappear. All economics will be as behavioral as it needs to be. And those who have been stubbornly clinging to an imaginary world that consists only of Econs will be waving a white flag, rather than an invisible hand.

Should I get you a shovel, so you can dig that hole deeper?

Thoth's beak! You are impossibley stubborn. Yeah, it's a gift.

I wouldn't accept your help if I was blind and needed guidance across a six-lane highway. Now please go away!

Part of my stubbornness can be put down to human nature. It is hard for anyone with an illness, chronic or acute, to take medications absolutely as prescribed. Once symptoms of an illness go away, it becomes even more difficult.

Prior Godwyn came in to see the patients. He refused to wear the face mask, saying it was women's nonsense. He made the same diagnosis as before, overheated blood, and prescribed bleeding and a diet of sour apples and ram's tripe.

Papa says if you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

Papa says if you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

Don't knock the power of a pest," Leif said. "Persistance and stubborness can be useful in many situations.

Damned indecision and cursed pride.

To perseverIn obstinate condolement is a courseOf impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief:It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,A heart unfortified, a mind impatient.

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

They seemed so stubborn, resisting division by any number but one and themselves.

If stubbornness were water, I could sail on you to the ends of the earth.

Anyone can get lucky," he said coldly. "And I suspect your continued survival owes itself to a combination of good fortune and sheer bloody-mindedness. You are too stubborn to die.

All my problems bow before my stubbornness.

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.