Stubbornness Quotes - Page 5

• We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

  Jack Gilbert

  Acceptance, World, Ruthlessness

  Jack Gilbert (2009). “Refusing Heaven”, p.3, Knopf

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• When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Funny, Willpower

  "Matisse on art".

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• Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying “Yes, Lord!” - no resistance, no chafing, no stubbornness - simply submitting myself to His direction and will in my life.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Self, Resistance, Saying Yes

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Brokenness: The Heart God Revives”, p.51, Moody Publishers

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• The Logos came down out of love for us. Let us not keep Him down permanently, but let us go up with Him to the Father, leaving the earth and earthly things behind, lest He say to us what He said to the Jews because of their stubbornness: 'I go where you cannot come (Jn. 8:21).

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Father, Leaving

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• I can cope with nine of them, so they ought to be able to stand one of me. They could end the tiresomeness and stubbornness by giving me what I want.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Europe, Giving, Want

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I didn't understand at the time why Vince was so interested in teaching me life lessons when all I was trying to do was get my video played. But now I think it's because he saw a little bit of himself in me. Just like me, he was a rebel who listened to no one and did whatever it took to get the job done, pissing people off with his stubbornness and drive in the process. Therefore, he was trying to teach me how to better myself instead of repeatedly getting into trouble by rubbing people the wrong way.

  Chris Jericho

  Jobs, Life Lesson, Teaching

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• Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long timeand it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.My point is that you do not need me or anyone elseThe only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness

  Jon Krakauer

  Moving, Fighting, Opportunity

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• Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

  Max Anders

  Adversity, Israel, Parent

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• If a creative person has a sense of humor, a sense of style and a certain amount of stubbornness, he finds a way to do what he needs to in spite of the obstacles.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Creative, Style, Needs

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.123, Penguin

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• We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure, but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. To make injustice the only measure of our attention is to praise the Devil.

  Jack Gilbert

  Risk, Devil, Attention

  Jack Gilbert, “A Brief For The Defense”

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• Out of sheer stubbornness, I just would keep going - just hoping that at some point something would click. I certainly held onto the hope that it might. I had no guarantees, but I trusted that if I worked hard and put in the time, it would eventually reap a fruit. I just didn't know what that fruit was going to be or how big it was going to be.

  R.A. Dickey

  Fruit, Guarantees, Might

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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• 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.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• People's shortcomings should be treated with tact; if you expose them crudely, this is attacking weakness with a weakness. When people are stubborn, it requires skill to influence them; if you treat them with anger and spite, this is treating stubbornness with stubbornness.

  Zicheng Hong

  Skills, People, Taoism

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• Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

  Jane Fonda

  Mistake, Consistency, Admitting

  Jane Fonda (2006). “My Life So Far”, Ebury Press

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• The collapse of the Soviet bloc ended the massive subsidies that had kept the Cuban economy afloat. The once-vaunted education and health care systems fell into disrepair. Fidel Castro's stubbornness, meanwhile, made political and economic change difficult in Cuba.

  Tom Gjelten

  Political, Subsidies, Care

  Source: www.npr.org

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• This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American thinkers had come to believe that all parts of their balanced governments represented in one way or another the sovereign people. They had left the Aristotelian idea of mixed estates - monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy - way behind. [John] Adams had not, and his stubbornness on this point caused him no end of trouble.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Believe, Government, Ideas

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• In the long run, you have to have patience and integrity and a plan. You can't compromise your vision. I'm a bit of a control freak, brutal when it comes to my art because I believe it's the best way of doing it, for me. My stubbornness has given us the chance to play in some amazing places that most people never would have been allowed to play in. If I don't put a value on my work, then nobody else is going to.

  Einar Selvik

  Running, Art, Integrity

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I've always thought that each album would be my last one, and then I would be out of ideas and I would move to photography or something. I thought it was transient and it's not because of this entrenched career stubbornness that I've done it for so long, it's just something I enjoy doing, and it's the most direct way I can express something.

  Tim Hecker

  Photography, Moving, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.

  Sophia Loren

  Believe, Sacrifice, Dedication

  Interview with Alain Elkann, alainelkanninterviews.com. June 9, 2014.

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• There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Critical Spirit, Novel, Behinds

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Hard Work, Persistence, Thinking

  "Book World Live: Malcolm Gladwell, author of 'Outliers'". Online Discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. November 18, 2008.

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• The movie industry has ignored the success of films that look favorably on faith with the same sort of self-destructive stubbornness that has led to its continued sponsorship of antireligious-message movies.

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Self

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• [Our family is] a wonderfully messy arrangement, in which relationships overlap, underlie, support, and oppose one another. It didn't always come together easily nor does it always stay together easily. It's known very good times and very bad ones. It has held together, often out of shared memories and hopes, sometimes out of the lure of my sisters' cooking, and sometimes out of sheer stubbornness. And like the world itself, our family is renewed by each baby.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Baby, Memories, Support

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• I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thinking, Needs, Determined

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• I love to just listen and watch. I could happily watch a security camera at a store. Often during a day I'll see a guy selling pretzels or an argument that somebody's having on a stoop and I'll think, "Oh I wish I had my camera, I wish I could capture this moment." There's something about people being people and interacting that can be so beautiful when it's framed by a camera. That desire to capture people as they are, and the stubbornness to keep going when they don't necessarily want you to capture them being who they are, are key.

  Marshall Curry

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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