Consistency Quotes - Page 5

• I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beach, Ocean, Wave Of Life

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• Your desire for consistency itself will set you on the right path. As long as you keep going up, never mind if you come down once or twice.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Long, Mind, Desire

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• [I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Practice, Track, Quality

  Jeremy Bentham (1838). “The works of Jeremy Bentham, now first collected: under the superintendence of his executor, John Bowring ...”, p.2

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• For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Talking

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• Truth isn't beauty. It isn't even always true. Truth is nothing more than consistency of message.
  I learned that from advertising.

  Josh Kilmer-Purcell

  Messages, Advertising, Truth Is

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• There's a certain consistency to who I am and what I do, and I think people have finally said, 'Well, you know, I kinda get her now.' I've actually had people say that to me.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

  " Hillary Clinton's scrunchie: the truth" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Writing, Poetry, Covering

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.12, A&C Black

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• Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

  Moliere

  Ridicule, Suitable

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• Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mind, Virtue, Overrated

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• Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten years ago. This simply amounts to a certificate that they have not grown-that they have not developed-and that they know just as little now as they ever did. The highest possible conception of consistency is to be true to the knowledge of today, without the slightest reference to what your opinion was years ago.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Integrity, Believe, Years

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Tributes and miscellany”

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• We are not only interested in those aspects of the mystery of the Roman Catholic Church which set her apart from the other Christian communities, but also to show how often they are central beliefs by describing what is specifically Catholic in such a way that the partner in dialogue can see, even from his own standpoint, the inner consistency.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Community, Catholic

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• What we opprobriously call stupidity, though not an enlivening quality in common society, is nature's favorite resource for preserving steadiness of conduct and consistency of opinion.

  Walter Bagehot

  Stupidity, Quality, Common

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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• [Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has pointed out] A scientific discipline emerges with the - usually rather slow! - discovery of which aspects can be meaningfully 'studied' in isolation for the sake of their own consistency.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Discovery, Views, Discipline

  "Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing, 1987, Volume 1". Book edited by Douglas Schuler and Jonathan Jacky, 1989.

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• As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Flower, Character

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• I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel.

  Tom Perrotta

  Writing, People, Perfect

  "The Exchange: Tom Perrotta" by Sarah Larson, www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2011.

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• Being consistent is way less interesting than being yourself. And if you're not interesting? Good luck with your Big Consistency Project.

  Merlin Mann

  Being Yourself, Good Luck, Interesting

  Twitter post from Jun 16, 2011

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• It's tough. We don't have a character-driven show so I think the fans get really frustrated because they don't get to see any consistency in terms of what's happening romantically. We kind of just have to take it with a grain of salt. It shows up where it shows up.

  Eva LaRue

  Character, Thinking, Frustrated

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• How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Writing, Men, Color

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• For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the movie is going on and try to get into what my character's going to be like, to try to get some consistency, because they shoot movies out of order.

  Loretta Devine

  Book, Character, Order

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• I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

  Dusty Baker

  Baseball, Player, Levels

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• I think especially in such an unstable economic environment, what people criticized him [Mitt Romney] for in 2008 his consistency, the fact that he was so strong, and I think people will find that appealing going into the 2012. That’s one of the things that I like about him — because he’s been consistent since he changed his mind.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Strong, Thinking, Years

  "O'Donnell: I Like Mitt's Flip". CNN Interview, www.politico.com. December 14, 2011.

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• There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world.

  Jennifer James

  Passion, World, Rewards

  Jennifer James (1987). “Windows”, Newmarket Press

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• The most consistent men are not more unlike to others, than they are at times to themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Consistent

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.219

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• There was one or two offers that did come along during my time at United, but I always came back to this point; why would you leave United? Where is the bigger challenge? And the thing about challenges is, once you have won something, you can't live on that. Not at Manchester United - you have got to win the next one. And that's the challenge. Maintaining that consistency of winning which is a mentality that I have had.

  Alex Ferguson

  Winning, Two, Challenges

  RedNews interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 2, 2013.

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• Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.

  David Hilbert

  Understanding, Intuition, Special

  "Grundlagen der Mathematik". Book by David Hilbert, 1927.

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