Quotes and Sayings About Consistency
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In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
-- Alan Turing -
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.
-- Aldrich Ames -
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 -
I like the consistency of a TV show, but I like it for three months out of my year, not nine.
-- Allison Mack -
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 -
The universe exists only through a constant dance of consistency and change. Through consistency, consciousness finds meaning; through change it finds stimulation and expansion. To find consistency within change is to embrace the unfolding flow.
-- Anodea Judith -
From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense. There is no longer even any consistency in absurdities; the development has been wound up, and what comes now already exists: the syncretism of a muddle of all styles and possibilities, post-history.
-- Arnold Gehlen -
We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Why God should want and need us is a mystery. But it is true: otherwise he would not have created us and life would ultimately have no meaning for us. It is good to remember that in God the is a constancy, a consistency of attitude which never changes, irrespective of what we are or how we act: he never changes in is wanting us or needing us.
-- Basil Hume -
The greatest things I have learned from Coach Dungy would have to be humility and consistency. He truly leads by example, and he does it consistently. This allows people to really see his faith every single day, and that's the most important thing.
-- Ben Utecht -
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
-- Bernard Berenson -
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
-- Bernard Crick -
Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline.
-- Bill Cosby -
Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.
-- Bill Geist -
I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.
-- Billy Joel -
When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.
-- Brian Ferneyhough -
Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.
-- Bruce Lee -
Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.
-- Buffy Sainte-Marie -
I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.
-- Curt Schilling -
the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
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 -
Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special faculty of our understanding attuned to the principle of mathematical induction, as does Poincaré, or the primal intuition of Brouwer, or, finally, as do Russell and Whitehead, axioms of infinity, reducibility, or completeness, which in fact are actual, contentual assumptions that cannot be compensated for by consistency proofs.
-- David Hilbert -
I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
-- David LaChapelle
