Aristotle Quotes

Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Aristotle

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• Obstinate
• Boorish

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• In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

  

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• The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

  

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• Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

  

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• I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

  

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• They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.

  

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• An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

  

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• Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

  

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• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

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• If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

  

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• A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me.... I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.

  

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• Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.

  

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• Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

  

  Aristotle
  • People
  • Ignorant
  • Obstinate