Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.
Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.
But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
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.
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.
Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.
Grandfather was well known for being stubborn in his ideas. For instance... you had to go to sleep facing east so that you would be ready to greet the sun when it returned.
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.
I was an older brother. So I had to do a lot of things first. My father was a self-made man, and he would beat me senseless. But he was a Scotsman, and stubborn. I'm his son, and I'm stubborn, too. I go on being stubborn.
I have a few different managers, and one of them hit me up today and was like 'I'm going to set you up with these guys doing beats and such...' I was like cool, as long as I can do what I do. Just because kids are going like this now, I'm not going to do that because I am not 18 years old. I'm not going to rap like I'm in grade three because it's popular. I'm just not going to do that. It's not because I'm being stubborn, and I definitely not that guy that is getting older and does not understand the younger generation.
Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.
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