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

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• Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency

  Edward Hirsch

  Book, Knowledge, Culture

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• The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.

  Walt Disney

  Leadership, Sports, Dream

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• 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

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

  Frank Mir

  Keys, Mma, Patient

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• 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.

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• Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Government, Giving, Choices

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• 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.

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• 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

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• I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.

  Lee Westwood

  Week, Shows, Contending

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• I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

  Rachael Taylor

  Character, Television, Periods

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• 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

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• The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wise, Heart, Agitation

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• Great communication, Character, Competitive drive, Consistency, Compassion, Confidence -- skills successful leaders share.

  Avery Johnson

  Communication, Character, Successful

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• Fitness begins with initiative and continues with consistency. The six pack abs is a byproduct of being healthy.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Healthy, Six Packs, Initiative

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

  Jason Hartman

  Promise, Quality, Reliability

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• 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

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

  Michael Hyatt

  Perfection, Impossible, Consistent

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

  Maisie Williams

  People, Counting, Band Members

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• Sometimes we overcomplicate living the gospel. Consistency in acting in accordance with the Lord’s will is key.

  David A. Bednar

  Keys, Acting, Sometimes

  Twitter post from Mar 14, 2015

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Kate Christensen

  Thank God

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

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