I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best poems surprise me, as they should, but I fight them at every turn, possibly just because I'm stubborn.
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.
Art glows with faith even in its weakest parts. At every moment, writing is an act of self-confidence – the sheerest, most determined, most stubborn self-belief. You CAN have faith and doubt at the same time; the most insecure writer on the planet has faith that shines just as bright as her doubt, and she deserves props for that. It might be hidden deep, she might not feel it and you might not see it, but it’s in there, or she wouldn’t be able to write.
I think I was born stubborn, that's all.
A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.
Change is always proceeded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's always tough for me.
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.
Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.
I'm someone who has always been very stubborn and strong-willed. I never gave up.
The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift.
But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.
This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me
Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force.
The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.
The brave are always stubborn
Well, at least I’m not a stubborn, button-pushing, Prius-driving, chip-on-your-shoulder-holding, ‘stay-at-home-mom’-is-the-eighth-dirty-word-thinking feminazi!
I'm loyal and I think most Texans are very loyal, but I'm also stubborn.
the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.
So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.