You cannot possibly persuade people that what they have firmly in mind is not so.
He was the judge who presided over the breakup of AT&T in 1984
Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see, taken together, is Myself. I do not shake or move.
You get pigeonholed. It's a kind of safety device for people who don't really want to look any further outside of the box, but I'm actually impregnable as far as what people say about me.
Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.
Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.
You must be ruthless, relentless, and remorseless! Sack the lot!
John “Jacky” Fisher
The Vice President is like a man in a cataleptic state. He cannot speak. He cannot move.
I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.
Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.
Mountains terrify me - they just sit about; they are so proud.
Hitting Ali in the body or on the arms was like hitting a piece of cement.
If you're able to build something on a strong foundation, you're not going to be easily swayed.
Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
Even the Gods cannot change the past.
I'm a piece of work, man. I will do what I want, at all times, always. Nobody's going to persuade me one way or another. I can't be persuaded. I take criticism, I listen, I analyze, but at the end of the day, I make the decisions. Because that's the way I started, and that's the way I'm going to finish.
Some people have a mandate that you can't change.
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
I wanted to wear the most impenetrable suit of armour ever known to mankind. 'Hello, Mr. Rotten...' You can't say anything about me. You can't put me down in any way shape or form - I'm rotten to the core... you know, what's left for you? Pleasantries? I suppose the worst insult you could sling my way is 'Oh, he's really nice, him.'
He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
I have such strong beliefs. No money or anything could change that.
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.
Bizarrely, our English word 'sturdy' may go back to the Latin turdus, thrush. Anyone described as 'sturdy' in the 1200s was wilfully reckless and possibly as immovable as a sozzled bird.
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.