Laurence J. Peter Quotes

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

You can't win some people over.

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.

None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists.

I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

It would take wild horses to get me to talk.

You cannot possibly persuade people that what they have firmly in mind is not so.

The people who would call me an obstructionist overlook some inconvenient facts.

People will fight hard for something they want or something they don't want, that they don't believe a character would do.

Some people you struggle to argue with - they've got a lot of strong backing to what they say and what they do.

People are stubborn, and sometimes even if change is good, people will always oppose change.

Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.

Senior military officers will not accept defense reform unless it is forced upon them.

I can't force people to agree with me.

I know that my foot is firmly wedged in the door, and I'll be damned if I pull it out, even for a second.

I'm set in my own ways. I like to do the things I want to do when I want to do them.

I'm not hyper-opinionated, but when I do have an opinion, I'm very stubborn, and I want to persuade everyone to my point of view.

You can't push and force people to do what they don't want to do.

Nobody has ever wanted - they get forced to fight Yoel. Ask anybody.

You can't force anyone to understand anything that they don't want to understand.

Certain people were more of the arms-crossed kind of radio people that weren't sure about me.

You can't try to keep someone against their will, or it's difficult to get them to listen or have the right mentality.

I'm terrible with decisions. And I can't make myself do something I don't like. I can't knuckle under.