Consistently Quotes - Page 17

• I'm not saying I'm going to be deviating from what I've been establishing as far as being aware, but I feel odd about consistently being... I mean, I don't know if I'm... I'm just leery about a lot of things.

  Mr. Lif

  Mean, Odd

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• I've been lucky because my films have consistently made a profit, almost all of them have made a profit. Never a huge profit, but nobody gets hurt. And therefore I get a lot of freedom.

  Woody Allen

  Hurt, Lucky, Film

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.70, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development - it has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony - and in service.

  Akio Morita

  Running, Mean, Research And Development

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 156), 1986.

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• Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by judges, juries, or administrative officials and especially one that puts the burden of proving truth on the speaker.

  William J. Brennan

  Judging, Freedom Of Speech, Guarantees

  "New York Times Co. v. Sullivan". 1964.

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• Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lacking? To the lover. If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him, unnoticed before. Who is the subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.

  Anne Carson

  Love, Pain, Moving

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.30, Princeton University Press

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• Raymond Aron ascribes to Weber the view that 'each man's conscience is irrefutable.' ... while [Weber] holds that an agent may be more or less rational in acting consistently with his values, the choice of any one particular evaluative stance or commitment can be no more rational than any other. All faiths and all evaluations are equally non-rational.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Commitment, Views, Choices

  "After Virtue". Book by Alasdair MacIntyre, 1981.

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• My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and consistently defined in the literature on art. This line is not a straight one; it has the strangest and most fascinating twists and curves, and includes such artists as Edvard Munch, Ernest Josephson, Hill, Hansen Jacobsen, Johannes Holbek, Jens Lund, and Emile Nolde. Not all of them equally well known.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Curves, Twists

  "Fortaelleren Asger Jorn" by Gunnar Jespersen, (p. 121), 1984.

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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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• I have a form of ESP that allows me to consistently pick losing lottery numbers, and generally make poor life choices.

  Joey Comeau

  Numbers, Choices, Esp

  "Overqualified". Book by Joey Comeau, 2009.

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• The second German secret weapon is anti-Semitism, because if it is consistently pursued by Germany, it will become a universal problem which all nations will be forced to consider.

  Robert Ley

  Secret, Germany, Weapons

  "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal", Nuremberg, Germany, (p. 118), 1947.

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• To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? They have consistently refused to have a god contest, and I fear they will have to encounter the godlet rather forcibly before they believe there is anything there at all.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Believe, Expectations, Sound

  "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.

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• God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists. There seems to be some contradiction between these three propositions, so that if any two of them were true the third would be false. But at the same time all three are essential parts of most theological positions: the theologian it seems, at once must adhere and cannot consistently adhere to all three.

  J. L. Mackie

  Two, Evil, Essentials

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• I have said consistently in my 16-and-a-half years in the parliament, I have always supported the party room's decision and the party room is the ultimate authority on these matters. I don't expect that to change.

  Nick Minchin

  Party, Years, Decision

  "Liberal Party Further Divided by ETS Negogiations as Tony Abbott Abandons Malcolm Turnbull's Push for Amendments". www.heraldsun.com.au. November 20, 2009.

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• Mastery is a product of consistently going beyond our limits.

  Stewart Emery

  Mastery, Limits, Products

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• [Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.

  Richard Dawkins

  Medicine, Practice, Alternatives

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Effective leaders have the ability to consistently move themselves and others to action because they understand the “invisible forces” that shape us

  Tony Robbins

  Moving, Leader, Shapes

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• To achieve consistently terrific customer service, you must hire wonderful people who believe in your company's goals, habitually do better than the norm and who will love their jobs; make sure that their ideas and opinions are heard and respected; then give them the freedom to help and solve problems for your customers. Rather than providing rules or scripts, you should ask them to treat the customer as they themselves would like to be treated - which is surely the highest standard.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Believe, Ideas

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• It is not the conservative psyche that needs analysis. Conservatives were right in the Cold War --so right that liberals are pretending they were with us all along -- and they are right about Iraq. It is Leftists who need to account for their consistently disgraceful positions throughout the Cold War and into the War on Terror.

  David Limbaugh

  War, Iraq, Needs

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• Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Expression, Atmosphere

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

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• I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics, and very probably at some time, Jews. I have consistently tried while President to act in relation to my fellow Americans of Catholic faith as I hope that any future President who happens to be Catholic will act towards his fellow Americans of Protestant faith. Had I followed any other course I should have felt that I was unfit to represent the American people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Believe, Should Have, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “Letters of Theodore Roosevelt: The big stick, 1905-1909”

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• I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer, does their best writing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. My quota is two crappy pages per day. I keep it really low so I'm not so intimidated that I never get started. I will do the gathering of interviews and research throughout the day. I'll get all my notes and materials together and then I'll do the synthesis between 10 p.m. to bed, which is usually 4 or 5 a.m.

  Tim Ferriss

  Writing, Two, Together

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• The press still considers me one of the most laid-back athletes since Babe Ruth. That's supposed to be a criticism, but I consider it a compliment because I think being carefree on the course is one of the secrets to scoring well consistently

  Fred Couples

  Athlete, Golf, Thinking

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• In my day we simply didn't believe that it was possible to play as well as these young fellows do. We thought that strength denied touch and that you could not consistently hit the ball both long and straight. It's been proven that you can.

  Byron Nelson

  Believe, Golf, Play

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• No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults.

  Byron Nelson

  Golf, Winning, Advice

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• If you want Shaq to be Shaq, you've got to remember that Shaq is known for wreaking havoc offensively - 26,000-plus points without consistently making free throws. Don't have me doing something I'm not used to doing. I ain't used to being a pick-setter. Let me badda-bing, badda-bang.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Want, Bangs

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