Norman Granz Quotes

Consistency frequently launches its devotees into obstinacy.

His has a rigidity, an arrogance, and an obstinacy that will cause him to foment a thousand unfortunate incidents.

There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

The obstinate Man does not hold Opinions; they hold him.

The opposite of compromise is fanaticism and death.

Pigheaded covers a multitude of virtues - as well as sins.

I think I'm very hardheaded.

I think my whole deal was I didn't think other people had a right to an opinion. I think the problem I had was, in real life, it was my way or the highway, and if people disagreed with me, then they were just wrong.

Nothing outrages and disappoints an extremist more than compromise.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

... combines a limited outlook with strong qualities of resistance.

Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system.

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

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

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

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.