Consistently Quotes - Page 25

• Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation.

  Shiv Khera

  Mean, Practice, Effort

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• Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

  Sara Sheridan

  Class, Scotland, World

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• Discipline is a choice. It's simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.

  Rory Vaden

  Discipline, Choices, Easy

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• It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Diplomacy

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• When a person completely has nothing but negative interest in you and would like nothing more than to see you in the worst situation possible, then why would you consistently go toward that energy?

  Curtis Jackson

  Worst Situation, Energy, Negative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

  Thomas Mallon

  Sailing, Fiction, World

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• The novelist, unlike many of his colleagues, makes up a number of word-masses roughly describing himself (roughly: niceties shallcome later), gives them names and sex, assigns them plausible gestures, and causes them to speak by the use of inverted commas, and perhaps to behave consistently.

  E. M. Forster

  Sex, Character, Names

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• If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones
  Are consistently homesick for, this is chiefly
  Because it dissolves in water.

  W. H. Auden

  Afterlife, Water, Landscape

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.257, DEBOLS!LLO

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• Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.

  Paul Samuelson

  Investing, Logic, Wells

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• I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.

  Burton Malkiel

  Past, Example, Investing

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• No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Groups

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• In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.

  Naomi Klein

  People, Climate, World

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• I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

  Summer Sanders

  Dad, Swimming, Thinking

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• Nobody - but nobody - has ever become really proficient at golf without practice, without doing a lot of thinking and then hitting a lot of shots.  It isn't so much a lack of talent; it's a lack of being able to repeat good shots consistently that frustrates most players.  And the only answer to that is practice.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Player, Thinking

  Jack Nicklaus (2007). “Golf My Way”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think you can consistently be a winning trader if you're banking on being right more than 50 percent of the time. You have to figure out how to make money being right only 20 to 30 percent of the time.

  Bill Lipschutz

  Winning, Thinking, Banking

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• Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, Fragility, Levels

  "A Healthy Future for Immigrant Children Is a Healthy Future for the Nation" by Irwin Redlener, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2013.

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• This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

  David Ervine

  This Society, Backwards, New Future

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• Our assignment is not only to make visits but to consistently carry the Spirit into homes, to bless families with the pure love of Christ, to inspire, encourage, lift, and fortify. Every home is in need of additional support. Visiting teachers bring that blessed reinforcement. It is a sacred trust we have been given. We can overcome the obstacles.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Teacher, Blessed, Home

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• I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

  Ed Rendell

  Campaigns, Paper, Phases

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• I mind my body by eating whole, healthy foods. I learned from Nutrisystem to eat consistently all day; otherwise, your body hoards fat. Of course, I also mind my body when it occasionally whispers, 'Marie, you need some chocolate.'

  Marie Osmond

  Healthy, Chocolate, Mind

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• Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Government, Maintenance

  Abraham Lincoln, Carl Schurz, Joseph Hodges Choate, Noah Brooks, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1862). “The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: 1858-1862”, p.289

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• I think we are all of us a pretty milky lot, without tea-table convictions and our radicalism that keeps so consistently within the bounds of decorum . . . .I'd like to annihilate these stupid colleges of ours . . . instillers of stodginess.

  John Dos Passos

  Stupid, College, Thinking

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• We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Making Money, Approach

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Fire, Challenges, Trying

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 213), 1975.

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• Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.

  Paul Russo

  People, Excellence, Genius

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