Eric Walters

My family claims I think I'm always right, although I'm always willing to be proven wrong. I hold my opinions dearly, but you can always try to convince me differently, and if you do, I will hold that opinion dearly. I am decidedly stubborn and have been described as not having a type-A personality, but a quadruple-A personality.

Canadian Author

Julie Kagawa

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go along. Occasionally, the characters surprise me, and I wonder how we got here. Other times, the characters are stubborn and won't do something I want them to in the story.

American Author

Kate Bush

My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

British Musician

Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Everything comes from your mind. You have to push yourself to get things going in your direction. If you are stubborn, nothing will help. If you are sad, nothing will help. You have to keep positive and to work very well for your next chance.

Armenian Athlete

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.

American Musician

Bat for Lashes

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.

English Musician

Alexander Herzen

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.

Russian Journalist

Sugar Ray Leonard

They say that I'm stubborn, and my wife says that, too, but it's paid off so far.

American Boxer

Herbie Mann

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

Cleveland Amory

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

American Historian

Often suggests a person is unreasonably rigid and difficult to work with.

Negative Connotation

Can imply perseverance despite challenges, often admired.

Positive Spin

Used to describe deep emotional commitment to an idea or plan.

Emotional Intensity

It can simply mean something is hard to resolve or remove.

Not Always Negative

It can describe objects or problems that require extra effort to fix or solve.

Physical Challenges

When describing objects, it's factual, not insulting.

Not Disrespectful

 him yeah except I'm here to challenge him here if I tell him what everything is then I'm not help him understand so I'm really make him psychologically blind he knows it's there he's being stubborn okay found it he didn't know it was there if he was there he wouldn't eat it okay I'm not gonna put my hands

Blind Terrier PIPE Dog...

 skeletal elements found in the fore limbs of land mammals they're comical stubbornness doesn't just make them great scratching aids but allows the flippers to conform to their bodies significantly reducing underwater drag powerful webbed hind flippers propel and steer them through the water large oily

Sleepy Harbour Seals and...

 Figuring out how to target these stubborn cells might help prevent cancers from coming back. Even if we solved those problems, we might face new ones. Cancer cells are masters of adaptation, adjusting their molecular and cellular characteristics to survive under stress.

Why is it so hard to...

 This phenomenon can help eradicate stubborn blood cancers. But bone marrow transplants also come with risks, including graft-versus-host disease. It happens when the immune system generated by the donor cells attacks the patient’s organs.

How bones make blood -...

 and sent across the internet. And beneath those visible events, the stubborn data, the studies showing systemic racism in every institution we housing segregation, job discrimination, the deeply racialized inequities in our schools

The lie that invented...

 that's about being ... stubborn? That's about being stubborn. That's about, like, just starting something and not saying, "OK, I'm done, let's do something else -- shiny!" And I notice that in many other parts in my life, too.

The mind behind Linux PIPE...

 We see that the nature of this phenomenon guarantees that they will. The question is whether we are willing to continue our support of a failed strategy based on our stubborn, blissful, voluntary ignorance

The deadly genius of...

 Here I was, being stubborn towards a trained soldier with a gun. I looked at his eyes. He was just a boy. At that moment, he raised his rifle to hit me, but I saw that he was hesitating.

What I learned as a...

 even when opaque, stubborn nations refuse to act. So what's the bottom line here? The bottom line is, we still live politically in a world of borders, a world of boundaries,

Benjamin Barber: Why...

 closed soul and yet there's still something missing isn't that some spark some sense of energy of life but since I'm what you might call it a stubborn

Stubborn

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