Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Adlai Stevenson I
Throughout my career I have done it my way and used my stubborn streak. I thought the best way to captain was to shut out all the noise - I did it with my batting and thought 'that has served me well, so why change it?'
Alastair Cook
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 distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.
Albert II of Belgium
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
Aldous Huxley
I am stubborn enough to know not to change myself.
Alessia Cara
Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills.
Alex Steffen
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
Alexander Herzen
I'm the most stubborn person I know.
Alice Walker
I know I have not always been understandable and that I was guided for too long by stubborn naivety, which created confusion.
Amanda Knox
I'm afraid in my family we still laugh now about the fact that I was called 'stubborn' and my brother was called 'determined.'
Amber Rudd
I was watching tennis on TV, and between games, they were showing a commercial for a tennis school. I wrote down the number, gave it to my mom, and said, 'This is what I want to do.' She thought it was a joke, but I was very stubborn, and I kept bringing it up.
Ana Ivanovic
It's laughable to claim the pro-life label while simultaneously putting people's lives at risk because you're too stubborn to acknowledge that Medicaid doesn't fund abortions.
Ana Kasparian
You don't stay undefeated without being a little stubborn.
Andre Ward
I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.
Andy Murray
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.
Ann Bancroft
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.
Ann Turner
Stubborn people get themselves in a lot of trouble, but they also get things done.
Anna Paquin
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
I'm not going to change; I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.
If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it and tell me if there's something, and that keeps you focused. I know my family and me well enough; why do I need to read about myself? I'm not going to change, I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas, but I'll leave them and go over to others as soon as I am shown plausible reasons which I can grasp.
Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
It bring a tear to my eye to see native New York people give me my props because New York is stubborn and arrogant.
I'm such a strong-headed person and so stubborn, I don't need someone to be sweet to me.
I'm very stubborn and I don't like to lose.
I have always been a very determined and stubborn person about what I want.
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
I'm pretty stubborn.
Mum says that, since I was a tiny baby, I've had the most strong-willed and stubborn personality known to man. Although that was a real pain for her, she admired my resolve.
People are stubborn, and sometimes even if change is good, people will always oppose change.
The common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.
My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.
I have this old-man character named Glary Oldman. His apartment was on fire, but he was stubborn about leaving because he didn't want to leave all his stuff. I have a character called Berle, who lost 19 pounds, and now he's 600 pounds and very happy about it.
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 think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
If I was to pick a cartoon character I am most like, I would say Daisy Duck because she is very stubborn, she has a very feminine sense, and she knows what she likes.
When things take a long time, I just get really stubborn.
As a teenager, I was perpetually grounded. I was stubborn rather than rebellious.
North Carolinians are hard-working common-sense, decent and stubbornly independent people.
I'm quite a stubborn person.
I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's something I don't want to do, I don't do it. Maybe it's stubborn, but any choices, if you don't like them, yell at me, because it for sure was my bad.
It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season.
I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.
