Consistency Quotes - Page 9

• The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hero, Eye, Past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• ...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Quality, Utilitarianism, Humans

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.11, Hackett Publishing

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• We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever striving to create and maintain an ethical balance. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever, striving to create and maintain an ethical balance; but the shimmer of summer rain under the street lamps or the great flashing glare of artillery against a night sky – such brutal beauty is beyond dispute.

  Anne Rice

  Summer, Rain, Struggle

  Anne Rice (2010). “The Queen of the Damned”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• I must achieve internal consistency.

  Edmund Husserl

  Achieve, Internals

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• It hit her like a sledgehammer, and it was then that she knew what to feel. A liquid trail of hate flooded her chest. Knowing that she would hate him long and well filled her with pleasant anticipation, like when you know you are going to fall in love with someone and you wait for the happy signs. Hating BoyBoy, she could get on with it, and have the safety, the thrill, the consistency of that hatred as long as she wanted or needed it to define and strengthen her or protect her from routine vulnerabilities.

  Toni Morrison

  Falling In Love, Hate, Knowing

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.

  Edmund Burke

  Community, Treats, Contempt

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.402

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• Constancy is the complement of all the other human virtues.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Virtue, Constancy, Humans

  "Life & Writings of Joseph Mazzini".

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• All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.

  Walter Benjamin

  Time, Giving, Principles

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• I always say that you could publish trading rules in the newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline. Almost anybody can make up a list of rules that are 80 percent as good as what we taught people. What they couldn’t do is give them the confidence to stick to those rules even when things are going bad.

  Richard Dennis

  Keys, Giving, Discipline

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• I always say you could publish rules in a newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline.

  Richard Dennis

  Keys, Discipline, Ruling

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• Have a relentless commitment to consistency of message. It might be the 15th time you’ve given the speech, but some people may never have heard it. Or, some people may have heard it four times but it’s the first time they’ve internalized it.

  David M. Cote

  Commitment, People, Four

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• I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.

  Allison Mack

  Years, Tv Shows, Three

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• The only time to take the step towards change is now. Even if they're baby steps, start today! Consistency is important because you must make time to work on your goals. Even if there is little you can do, you must!

  Hrithik Roshan

  Baby, Goal, Important

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• I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years.

  Christina Ricci

  Writing, Character, Years

  "Christina Ricci Interview PAN AM; Says Robert Pattinson Is “Absolutely Lovely” in BEL AMI". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 26, 2011.

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• It comes down to consistency-if you want to be a great shooter, you have to shoot the same way every time.

  Ray Allen

  Want, Way, Shooter

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• The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Real, Metaphor, Planes

  Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.77, A&C Black

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• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Men, Essence

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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• Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Character, People

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• One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

  Maya Angelou

  Motivational, Running, Courage

  "Pray It Forward: Daily Meditations" by Rowena Holloway, iUniverse, (p. 34), August 1, 2007.

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• Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and form versus the simple, uniform application of visual elements) and more patience (persistence over time versus creative authoritarianism).

  William Drenttel

  Simple, Persistence, Ideas

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• Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can. when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the colour and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favour of dirt.

  Sandra Boynton

  Food, Color, Vegetables

  "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion". Book by Sandra Boynton, 1982.

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• As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Next Week, Years, Long

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• Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

  Nelson Mandela

  Integrity, Needs, Morality

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.206, Pan Macmillan

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• We must not pick and choose which commandments we think are important to keep but acknowledge all of God’s commandments. We must stand firm and steadfast, having perfect confidence in the Lord’s consistency and perfect trust in His promises.

  L. Tom Perry

  Thinking, Perfect, Promise

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• Success lies in a masterful consistency around a few fundamentals. It really is simple. Not easy. But simple.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Lying, Simple

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