Zitat des Tages über Sturheit / 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.
The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.
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.
One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
Bernie Sanders is making a big and potentially dangerous mistake with his continuing insistence on changes to the Democratic Party's rules and platform. I should know. As chairman of Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, I understand too well where such ideological stubbornness can lead.
We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.
I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
I suppose you could say there is an in-built stubbornness to me.
If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.
A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.
The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
