To the Editor: Dani Dayan's article is most disturbing for its stubborn resistance to thinking creatively either about how Palestinians relate to the presence of nearly 300,000 Israelis on their land or about how Israelis are at risk of losing a Jewish majority or living with a disenfranchised population.
Of course, the more a ballplayer -- or a golfer or a football player or anyone else abruptly thrust into obsession -- tries to stop thinking, the more stubborn the thoughts become.
Stubborn folk, these Greeks, you keep thinking when you hear these sentiments.
But I was thinking: "That is the most stubborn man I have ever met".
Which raises this question: If "god" indeed grows, and grows with stubborn persistence, does that mean we can start thinking about taking the quotation marks off?
And I always know that she's thinking about that whenever I am stubborn about something, in our constant quest at my self-improvement".
"It's me being stubborn and not wanting to change," Sabathia said, "and thinking that I've got stuff figured out".
"It rewrote the rules and made TV a better, happier place for thinking viewers, even as it was telling the story of a bunch of stubborn, ignorant, miserable excuses for human beings".
Thinking that people must see that you need help but are simply being stubborn by not doing so can cause you to see difficult behavior where there is nothing of the sort.
The Slow House design attracted a rash of new commissions, and Diller and Scofidio — architecture's cult ironists — became honest-to-goodness builders, leavening their stubborn devotion to conceptual thinking with elegant craftsmanship.
Like Paul Newman's imprisoned Lucas Jackson character, the markets are a study in defiance and stubborn resistance to conventional thinking.
