I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.
The writer's secret is not inspiration - for it is never clear where it comes from - it is his stubbornness, his patience.
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
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.
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.
There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
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.
A lot of my branding has come from stubbornness - I knew what I liked. I knew what I wanted to do.
I think people should try to teach young children that these qualities - stubbornness and a capacity to listen - might look like they are opposites, but they are not.