Stubborn Quotes - page 2

Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens. (Patrick Rothfuss)
It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There is a stubborn effort in us to set up a compact screen between consciousness and the self. View quote
Eric Hoffer
I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool, I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind's treason; Taliesin still, I show you a new world, risen, Stubborn with beauty, out of the heart's need. View quote
R. S. Thomas
I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait. View quote
Larry Wall
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thoth's beak! You are impossibley stubborn." "Yeah, it's a gift. View quote
Rick Riordan
You remind me of myself ” Bes continued "back when I was a young dwarf. You got a stubborn streak. When it comes to girl problems you're clueless. View quote
Rick Riordan
I like stubborn players. At least they have an opinion. If they are right or wrong, this doesn't matter for me. View quote
Ruud Gullit
Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep coming up with this stubborn problem of a woman being judged by her appearance rather than her accomplishments. We are much more inclined to ask: was Cleopatra beautiful? View quote
Stacy Schiff
Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it? View quote
David Levithan
I'm not Stubborn; I'm right! (James Patterson)
The facts of life are very stubborn things. View quote
Cleveland Amory
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn. View quote
Bitsie Tulloch
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. View quote
David Antin
We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems. View quote
Dan Miller
I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager. View quote
Dree Hemingway
I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental. View quote
Emraan Hashmi
I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me. View quote
Eric Church
All the Tauruses I know have this connection to the earth and the environment. We are very curious people, very loyal, very aware of and respectful of our surroundings. Also, we're stubborn, but that's our way. We understand what we want, which is not bad. View quote
Francisco Costa
Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing. (Herbie Mann)
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father. View quote
Hugh Leonard
Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind. View quote
Joe Nichols
You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised. View quote
James Dyson
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. View quote
King Albert II