Top 1200 Being Stubborn Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.

The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty of our present society.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

and a fact is the most stubborn thing in the world.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

I've always had confidence when it comes to athletics. It's sometimes stubborn to a fault.

The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.

The repercussions of one person living in stubborn gladness are incalculable.

There is a fine line between stubborn and stupid.

Women face a lot of challenges every day - we have to stand firm in our walk and our intentions - but there are times when that weight feels too heavy, feels like a load that I just can't bear that day. I try to work through that in my art, whatever medium that might be. My live performance is based around the color red, and all the things that communicates as a woman to the world - fiery, really vocal, present, almost a kind of stubborn color - and redefining it as being very complex. Being able to express that complexity, I'm getting a lot better at that the older I've gotten.

When I'm hell-bent on something, there's no way around it. I can be a very stubborn.

Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

In my work, hair denotes the flow of life prior to being freed from pain. I fill the hair with human struggles such as deep-rooted anxieties, stubborn attachment to life, obsessions, and restrictions. Appearing fluid like a live organism, the hair symbolizes longevity and patience, but when it appears coarse, the hair expresses an energetic life force and freedom.

You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.

I always do my own stunts, as much as possible. I'm a little stubborn about it.

My dad is such a Cuban man - he's as stubborn as me.

Success comes from stubborn perseverance and the tenacity not to admit defeat

Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.

Well, I'm stubborn and wrong, but at least I know it.

But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

I am not a completely stubborn person. But I have views.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

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

We're principled in the direction we're heading, but we're not going to be stubborn.

If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, you’re now competing against a fraction of those people, because very few companies are willing to do that. Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavours that you could never otherwise pursue. At Amazon we like things to work in five to seven years. We’re willing to plant seeds, let them grow—and we’re very stubborn. We say we’re stubborn on vision and flexible on details.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

You can consider me stubborn, but I think I'm really intelligent.

Poverty is a stubborn thing: you seldom escape it with one bound.

I have always been a very determined and stubborn person about what I want.

With years, you change. You're not as hardheaded or stubborn. You are more malleable.

I am stubborn enough to know not to change myself.

At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy.

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

The word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.

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

Who knows, maybe I'm just a stubborn jerk? Maybe the other people who do stuff they don't want to do, maybe they're doing the right thing. Who am I to say? I'm just doing my thing and being myself, and I've been given the incredible, fortunate opportunity to play roles that I frickin' care about and enjoy playing. And it might not last forever. That's okay. That's what it is.

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.

There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

I've always been a real stubborn Latina. I'm a Gemini.

I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season.

The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.

I'm a pretty stubborn guy. I don't quit too easily.

Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.

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

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.

My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.