Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
“Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Sheer obstinacy is very very important for anybody who wants to create. — Wayne White Copy Share Image
Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
The obstinacy of the indolent and weak is less conquerable than that of the fiery and bold. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The line between pride in our work and neurotic obstinacy is a narrow one. We make our recommendations clear. But we do… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
At the back of it there lies the central citadel of obstinacy: I will not give up my right to myself--the thing… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism. — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The artist, surgeon, through clay form, can only look for cure with great obstinacy until he discovers, repeatedly, that love is god's… — Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Copy Share Image
“There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion; whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like iron… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it be true that men of strong imaginations are usually dogmatists--and I am inclined to think it is so--it ought to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I wish, my dear Kepler, that we could have a good laugh together at the extraordinary stupidity of the mob. What do… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
At the moment we have a critical situation in Greece. Even as we speak, where there is an open attempt by the… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice. — John Locke Copy Share Image
The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
