Dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it …
Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.
She live in a mindset that I could never move to
An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have been determined in advance of the particular experience or observation. They are derived from the ideology, and not subject to the facts.
I'm really unimaginative - once I like something, I fix on it.
There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.
I am obstinate and I will not give in.
Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything.
Once I make a decision, it's hard for me to listen to anybody else's opinion. I make a choice, and I'm like, 'This is it. I've thought long and hard about this, and this is exactly what needs to happen.'
Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
I'm a massive control freak.
The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men.
One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.
Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.
Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt, because, having more continuity and purpose, it is more formidable.
