Consistency Quotes - Page 6

• We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.

  Thomas Paine

  Errors, Vices, Virtue

  Thomas Paine (1990). “The Crisis Papers, 1776-1783”, p.136, Rowman & Littlefield

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• Consistency is nice, I think, personally. I like to be consistently happy. I like to be consistently more aware and more conscious of the truth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Nice, Buddhism

  4 Copy quote

• You know a Senate race is obviously a much smaller deal than a presidential race. What I think makes a very hard job considerably easier when you're going to debate is if you have reminded yourself - or somebody has reminded you during the course of your campaign - that consistency is enormously important. That people don't want to hear you say one thing in one part of the state and another thing in another part of the state.

  Michael Bennet

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  "Transcript: Face to Face with Sen. Bennet". Interview with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. October 3, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once again, the vice president has acknowledged that he dares to follow where Bill Bradley has boldly led. ... The only consistency in Al Gore's positions is that he has consistently been less willing to lead with bold proposals of his own, but consistently followed in the footsteps of other leaders.

  Anita Dunn

  Leader, President, Bills

  4 Copy quote

• Our knowledge and our ability to handle our problems progress through the open conflict of ideas, through the tests of phenomenological adequacy, inner consistency, and practical-moral consequences. Reason may err, but it can be moral. If we must err, let it be on the side of our creativity, our freedom, our betterment.

  Rudolph Rummel

  Creativity, Ideas, Progress

  7 Copy quote

• Be patient, be diligent. Consistency is the key.

  Frank Mir

  Keys, Mma, Patient

  17 Copy quote

• I want to make a series of movies that run together, so if any crazy lunatic wants to watch them all in a row, there will be a consistency of tone.

  Peter Jackson

  Running, Crazy, Together

  "Comic-Con: Martin Freeman, Sir Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis and Peter Jackson Talk THE HOBBIT, the Possibility of Three Films, 48fps, 3D, SHERLOCK, More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 15, 2012.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [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.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a corn creamer that I love. It extracts pulp and juice from kernels, and I simmer that down into a creamed corn that has an almost mashed potato-like consistency. I add butter and hit it with chopped fresh chives at the end for an accent of color.

  Nick Offerman

  Color, Corn, Potatoes

  7 Copy quote

• I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.

  Martha Plimpton

  Character, Time Keeping, Giving

  "'Raising Hope's' Martha Plimpton on Her Emmy Nomination, 'I Was Doubly Surprised'". Interview with Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 13, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thank God for my hobgoblin, small-minded consistency.

  Kate Christensen

  Thank God

  Kate Christensen (2009). “Trouble: A Novel”, p.32, Anchor

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• With such a perishable, expensive and important product buying truffles can be a leap of faith for a chef. Working with Céline over the past two years has taken away any of that stress. The level of quality and consistency with her truffles is unsurpassed. Most importantly the quality and loyalty of her service makes me feel that she is looking out for me and my guests interests in giving me an honest assessment of the markets fluctuations.

  Douglas Keane

  Loyalty, Stress, Taken

  4 Copy quote

• People don't always do what they say they're going to do.

  Maisie Williams

  People, Counting, Band Members

  11 Copy quote

• The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

  David Eagleman

  Self, Skulls, Three

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.6, Canongate Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your personal brand is a promise to your clients... a promise of quality, consistency, competency, and reliability.

  Jason Hartman

  Promise, Quality, Reliability

  39 Copy quote

• The first thing I remember about the world and I pray that it may be the last is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens , provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Feelings, Lasts, Firsts

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.1, Regent College Publishing

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

  David Luiz

  Player, Piano, Listening

  17 Copy quote

• If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty  to principles, any profound conviction, any consistency, any steadfastness, any passion, any dedication to an unbreached, inviolate truth -- any man of integrity.

  Ayn Rand

  Loyalty, Integrity, Passion

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.173, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.

  Anthony Trollope

  Cousin, Brother, Uncles

  Anthony Trollope (2011). “Phineas Redux”, p.95, OUP Oxford

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Consistency is better than perfection. We can all be consistent-perf ection is impossible.

  Michael Hyatt

  Perfection, Impossible, Consistent

  11 Copy quote

• Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.

  Oliver DeMille

  Exercise, Thinking, Mind

  14 Copy quote