Consistency Quotes - Page 15

• Ideas matter a lot, the underlying ideas that stand behind policies. When you don't have ideas, your policies are flip-flopping all over the place. When you do have ideas, you have more consistency. And when you have the right ideas - then you can get somewhere (reagan had the right ideas).

  George P. Shultz

  Ideas, Matter, Flip

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• Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.

  Simon Patrick

  Christian, Peace, Kindness

  Simon Patrick (1848). “The Heart's Ease, Or, A Remedy Against All Troubles: A Consolatory Discourse, Particularly Directed to Those who Have Lost Their Friends and Dear Relations : to which is Added Two Papers Printed in the Time of the Plague, 1665”, p.3

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• Conservatives are driven and inspired by principles, not personalities. We therefore seek consistency with our elected officials. To the extent that they are not consistent, anger is the inevitable result. So yes, many will be angry.

  Chris McDaniel

  Anger, Personality, Principles

  "Scalise brings back Boehner's familiar right flank hangover" by Alexandra Jaffe, www.cnn.com. December 31, 2014.

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• In Hawaii, the environment is fabulous. In Malibu, the people are fabulous. Our family unity is tight, and we have the Pacific Ocean outside our door in both places, so there is consistency.

  Laird Hamilton

  Ocean, Doors, People

  "Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece for the winter cover of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis, www.lairdhamilton.com. December 08, 2014.

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• Consistency is necessary, but its not sufficient to make it to a level that breaks you out in front of everyone else.

  Ramit Sethi

  Levels, Break, Sufficient

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• Soon the sun will set'- is that prophecy? No, it's merely an assertion of faith in the consistency of events.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Events, Sun, Prophecy

  Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959). “A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ”

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• History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

  Jared Diamond

  Simplicity, Complicated, Enterprise

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.322, Penguin

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• Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for in enthusiasm. Most of the time when I called her name, she sprinted back, her long ears cocked and flying like a little girl's pigtails. Each encounter was a glorious reunion, even if we'd been parted for only a minute or two. I had never felt so loved.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Girl, Names, Two

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• Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.

  Glen Cook

  Mind, Narrow Minds

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• Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

  Jane Fonda

  Mistake, Admitting, Stopping

  Jane Fonda (2006). “My Life So Far”, Ebury Press

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• There are very few chefs both in Britain and the States that really identify the secret of being consistent. And combine consistency with flavor.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Secret, Flavor, Chef

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I strive for nothing if not consistency

  Brandon Sanderson

  Strive, Ifs

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.539, Macmillan

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• the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Doubt, Degrees

  D H Lawrence, Daniel Defoe (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…Banned Books: Lady Chatterley's Lover & Moll Flanders”, p.267, Random House

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• Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence.... Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.

  William Godwin

  Government, Giving, Atheism

  William Godwin (1798). “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness”, p.230

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• His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mind, Logic, Bothered

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• Ranger declined the butterscotch pudding, not wanting to disrupt the consistency of his blood sugar level. I had two puddings and coffee, choosing to keep my pancreas at peak performance. Use it or lose it is my philosophy.

  Janet Evanovich

  Philosophy, Coffee, Use It Or Lose It

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

  Irving Berlin

  Success, Business, Congratulations

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• My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

  Oscar Wilde

  Loyalty, Passion, Boys

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.48, Prestwick House Inc

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• Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.

  James Sallis

  Running, Memories, Motivation

  James Sallis (2012). “Black Hornet”, p.13, Oldcastle Books

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• Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

  Oswald Chambers

  Religious, Faithful, Important

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.80, Discovery House

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• Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.

  Hugh Prather

  Believe, Doubt, Needs

  Hugh Prather (2003). “Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions”, p.11, Conari Press

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• We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Deception, Looks, Want

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1109, Race Point Publishing

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• Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

  Justina Chen

  Coffee, Adventure, Life Is Good

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• To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole bunch of people contributing to the complex life of a movie. There are actors, there's a cinematographer, there're costume people, set people, there are all these things, and you somehow have to be the person in the middle of it who is making it all synchronize into the same magic bubble.

  Edward Norton

  Jobs, People, Magic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• On issues carrying as much emotional freight as race - and there aren't many - a U.S. senator needs to speak with care and consistency. Otherwise, he could find people speaking at his own retirement tribute.

  Gordon Smith

  Retirement, Emotional, Race

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