Quotes about consistency

But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.

Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless I'm glad those people don't love me.

What you repeatedly do carries the clay to mold you into who you eventually become. Don’t despise any tiny minute of the day each counts so much!

Mastery is not dispensed on the podium of quitters but purchased on the counter of consistent application of self-willing can do spirit and an outstanding endurance to persevere with persistent endurance till the end!

God is like a mirror, consistent, stable, unchanging; reflecting His image of us, that is always changing.

A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does!

If EXCELLENCE is one of your values, not only you self-critic and evaluate your performance consistently, you BEG others for honest feedback...

He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

To emend one's thinking constantly is a desirable practice, and one I often engage in--sometimes to the point of being almost schizophrenic. But there are cases where one should not parade changes just to prove one is up to date. In the field of ideas, as much as in other fields, monogamy is not necessarily a sign of absence of libido.

It's your duty to build your brand daily not in a day

Sucked in and turned around by the blades, the night at first flows smoothly, but then it starts to take on a denser consistency. Already the night was nearly halfway through its course, so a good portion of it had hardened. Because of this, as I walked through it, it gave me none of the easy, buoyant feeling you get in the early-evening hours. Something about it seemed creaky. But that was, in its own way, typical of the night too.

Perfection of effort is not required, by the way. It is the consistency of attempting to work these tools that brings the progress. It’s like anything else. If I want to tone muscle, lifting a ten-pound weight a few times every day will move me toward my goal much quicker than hoisting a fifty-pound barbell once a week. Yes, it really is true: “Slow and steady wins the race.” Just try a little, every day. You’ll see.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

The only man who can change his mind is the man who's got one.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

Shoemaker stick to your last.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for.

As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...

Consistency and accuracy instills believability

I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.

Success is an outcome of conscious choices pursued consistently and tirelessly.

Work on your goals, one step at a time. Remain focused and do not stop. You will be amazed how much you can accomplish over the years. In most things in life, it is not the speed but the consistency that matters.

Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone.

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.

Character, simply stated, is doing what you say you’re going to do.

Why don't you try something really different and be the same person two days in a row?

If you put yourself in the emotion that you want from others, you are more likely to receive it.

Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills.

The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no one could deny to be a matter of fact, when his attention was drawn to the evidence; and the occurrence of great geological changes which also was matter of fact; could be used as the only necessary postulates of a theory of the evolution of plants and animals which, even if not at once, competent to explain all the known facts of biological science, could not be sh

If you can strike the cord of consistency on the guitar of life, the world will dance to your music of greatness

Facts and values are entangled in science. It's not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other kinds of interests, but because of a commitment to reason, consistency, coherence, plausibility and replicability. These are value commitments.

A truly honorable person, would never convince another to stray, from their personal pursuit of honor. No, only one lacking this noble quality would try to justify and market, an existence without it.

Trust is built with consistency.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.

I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

I think the intellectual consistency of Christianity in historical evidence is frankly overwhelming, but my materialist colleagues regard me as a slightly sad case.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

. . to be exceptional in martial arts, you must possess the "4 C's" : Consistency, Commitment, Creativity and Competence

The harder the struggle, the bigger the gain. The important thing is to stick with it, repetitively and consistently.

To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing choice is to avoid difficulties by means of Hilbert's program. Here one regards mathematics as a formal game and one is only concerned with the question of consistency ... . The Realist position is probably the one which most mathematicians would prefer to take. It is not until he becomes aware of some of the difficulties in set theory that he would even begin to question it. If these difficultie

An inconsistent political philosophy is that which feeds our battle yet starves our victory.

Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism …

life is hard to explain, difficult to understand but you still need life.

Subjectivity measures nothing consistently.

The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of boring people with endless photo montages of the Chelsea Pensioners in their dress reds, or close-ups of a Pimm's Cup sprouting all kinda of flora, has yet to be proven. People like Wimbledon in the same way they like blue jeans or even their own spouses: for the pleasure yielded by their reliable sameness.

If you don't stay relevant you will be relegated

Don't go for knockout in one punch, if your desire is to stay longer in the fight and thrive; go for outlasting them. Take the higher road.

An intelligent consistency is the foundation of genius.

Consistency also teaches us that some things do not change, though we may wish they would. Not everything bends to our personal preferences.

Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.

Now having travelled from the pride of man in the High Renaissance and the Enlightenment down to the present despair, we can understand where modern people are. They have no place for a personal God. But equally they have no place for man as man, or for love, or for freedom, or for significance. This brings a crucial problem. Beginning only from man himself, people affirm that man is only a machine. But those who hold this position cannot live like machines! If they could, there would be no tens

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man....

When a true purpose refuses to breathe, it suffocates to its ebb and death!

Who Are We to Tell Anyone What They Can or Can't Do?

Consistency, constancy, and undeviating diligence to maintain Christian character are a must if the older generation is to command respect, or even a hearing, from the young.

Somehow I get the idea that being whole is about being perfectly consistent. I'd rather we be perfectly honest.

The fastest and easiest way to accomplish any task is to do it with minimum breaks and pauses.

Consistency simplifies the problem more than hard work of one time because no problem cannot possibly beat you everyday.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderst

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.

Keeping possibilities alive requires a consistency of thought and focus.

Everyday should be a working day on those difficult tasks. A little bit per day is the only way to make it through. Never feel it can't be done; it can be done with persistent actions, repeated input and consistent attendance!

Do it again and again. Consistency makes the rain drops to create holes in the rock. Whatever is difficult can be done easily with regular attendance, attention and action.

The voice of Jacob will do a little good if the hands be the hands of Essau.

Only the ocean kept the same rhythm. Crashing in and slowly pulling back out, it never lied, never changed. It tried to teach them a life of romantic consistency.

In business, it is better to be consistently bad than inconsistent.

You must stay focused, concentrating on the work at hand. Consistency makes the rain drops to create holes in the rock.

Among the many factors that differentiate successful people from consistent failures one is paramount; when failures were sleeping, successful people where thinking!

Specialization, concentration and consistency is the key to outstanding performance... Love your zone!

Your inability to do what you are noted for doing is a critical step to wading off your past glories of excellence!

Turn down things that are in consistence with your priorities.

In order to make our gifts perfect, you need to work on yourself but it hurts

The cure is as simple as this: Live your words and live your belief system.

One bulb at a time. There was no other way to do it. No shortcuts--simply loving the slow process of planting. Loving the work as it unfolded. Loving an achievement that grew slowly and bloomed for only three weeks each year.

It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.