Words matter. These are the best Stubbornness Quotes from famous people such as Charles Murray, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Walt Mossberg, Cynthia Voigt, Darcey Bussell, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence, and stubbornness to be an openly committed Christian – or openly committed to any of the great religious traditions – as an undergraduate in selective colleges or in the honors programs of large universities.
Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wrote, but also it came out of a desire to portray women as powerful and intelligent forces in the world.
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 do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I’m the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.
I suppose you could say there is an in-built stubbornness to me.
In ‘The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,’ part of the ‘Dear America’ series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people.
One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness – I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness – she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn’t there for that.
Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership – if you’re right about what you’re stubborn about.
I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what’s expected – despite wanting to get some recognition through performing – but also not always wanting to do the expected thing.
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.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
My stubbornness helped me for the first half of my career; I had that real determination to do it my way – I know the best way. That helped me from a 14-year-old to 25 in getting me to where I got to.
The writer’s secret is not inspiration – for it is never clear where it comes from – it is his stubbornness, his patience.
I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
