There is a false idea that I am stubborn and do only what I want, but really, I am like a sponge.
Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.
I can be quite argumentative and stubborn if I get a bee in my bonnet. I can be quite a pain.
I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do.
There are young guys coming up, trying to make their name off me, and I'm a stubborn dude. I don't want to let that happen. That's very motivating.
Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.
Brits, Scandinavians, Finns, Estonians consider themselves rational, logical, unencumbered by emotional arguments; we are businesslike, stubborn, and hard-working.
Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
I'm not going to change; I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.
You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart.
Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.
Im a typical Capricorn. Im hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I dont believe in astrology.
During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.
But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
I am not particularly disciplined, but I am stubborn like few.
Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.
That whole country, Malaysia has a history of telling other countries back off, we`ll do our business. They`re pretty stubborn bunch of people. So they will do what they have to do.
Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.
I stand by my opinions when I know I'm right, Captain Phelan. Whereas you stand by yours merely because you're stubborn.
Most people probably assume that Hristo is a grumpy, stubborn guy... That can't be further from the truth. He's a cheerful, candid person that never holds a grudge.
I tore the dreams from my head and tossed them in the flames. And the smoke smelled like my past, and it stung my eyes but I was too stubborn to blink.
To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.
I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.
Anorexia is a self-destructive thing, and you become stubborn, so when people are trying to tell you something, you get it into your head that they're against you, and you're not going to listen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
I'm afraid in my family we still laugh now about the fact that I was called 'stubborn' and my brother was called 'determined.'
I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.
As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
My dad was a very strong man, very stubborn as well.
I'm loyal and I think most Texans are very loyal, but I'm also stubborn.
I have my own stubborn attitude about how I want to play and where I want to go.
He's stubborn," Tux warned in a singsong tone. "Stay out of this," Mark spat. "And touchy," Tux added.
I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.
She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.
The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.
My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors are always stubborn.
The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.
During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.
[Adolf Hitler] had stubborn ideas about clothes and didn't care how he looked and this drove [Eva Braun] up the wall.
Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.
If you're going to be an entrepreneur, most likely you're going to be Type A - stubborn.
I can be incredibly stubborn and I'm not sure how that reflects in my looks. The family name is German and translates as donkey! If I think I'm right, I hope I don't seem grumpy.
Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?" "Are you calling me stupid?" "Yes, but in a more poetic way!" "Well, here's a poem for you. Get lost!
You should know it yourself- a young man is still a boy, and a boy sometimes has the right to be stubborn.
Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.
I've always been very driven and am also very stubborn.
Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,
Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;
And that is why their lovers are afraid
To tell them a plain story.
Taureans are stubborn as hell. They never want to tell you what sign they are.... But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats the heart of a hopeless romantic.
There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.
I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.
Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.
Facts are stupid things ? stubborn things, I should say.
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