quotes 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 HuxtableSource : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House
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We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.
-- Alan TuringSource : Alan Mathison Turing, B. J. Copeland (2004). “The Essential Turing”, p.477, Oxford University Press
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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 -
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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 HumeSource : Basil Hume (2002). “Searching for God”, p.100, Gracewing Publishing
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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 BerensonSource : Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”
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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
-- Bernard CrickSource : Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.143, University of Chicago Press
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 HilbertSource : "Grundlagen der Mathematik". Book by David Hilbert, 1927.
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I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
-- David LaChapelle -
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 -
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 -
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I just do what I feel and what I like. I don't necessarily censor or feel an obligation to have a particular moral standard - I'm willing to wallow in the mud, if necessary. It appears as if there seems to be a consistency in result, but maybe that has as much to do with the roles I choose as it does with how I play them. I do what pleases me.
-- Denzel Washington -
Has he (Rickey Henderson) ever been here (Spring Training) the first day? You have to say Rickey's consistent. That's what you want in a ballplayer - consistency.
-- Don Mattingly -
There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.
-- Douglas TrumbullSource : "Trumbull's Vision". Interview with Jeff Greenwald, www.wired.com. January 1, 1997.
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I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.
-- Dusty Baker -
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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 -
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 -
To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole bunch of people contributing to the complex life of a movie. There are actors, there's a cinematographer, there're costume people, set people, there are all these things, and you somehow have to be the person in the middle of it who is making it all synchronize into the same magic bubble.
-- Edward Norton -
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Consistency shows value. It breeds trust. You know that I'm going to show up every week.
-- Emmitt Smith -
It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.
-- EpictetusSource : "Robert Griffin III stands tall at the NFL Combine in more ways than one". Interview with Mary Kay Cabot, www.cleveland.com. February 25, 2012.
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The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you’re shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.
-- Eric Barker -
Sometimes it ain’t about being the most talented. Sometimes it ain’t about being the smartest. Sometimes it’s not even about working the hardest. Sometimes it’s about consistency! Consistency!
-- Eric Thomas -
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It's tough. We don't have a character-driven show so I think the fans get really frustrated because they don't get to see any consistency in terms of what's happening romantically. We kind of just have to take it with a grain of salt. It shows up where it shows up.
-- Eva LaRue -
We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
-- Ferdinand Mount -
Be patient, be diligent. Consistency is the key.
-- Frank Mir -
Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.
-- Gilles DeleuzeSource : Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.12, A&C Black
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The plane of consistency is the abolition of all metaphor; all that consists is Real.
-- Gilles Deleuze -
There are very few chefs both in Britain and the States that really identify the secret of being consistent. And combine consistency with flavor.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
Consistency is something you can always improve on. You can be more consistent with your mental approach, the things you do physically on the mound. Instead of doing 5 good pitches an inning, try to make six. You can always do more of what you are doing well and try to be as consistent as you can be.
-- Greg Maddux -
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Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.
-- Grimes -
All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.
-- Gunnar Myrdal -
Consistency is what counts; you have to be able to do things over and over again.
-- Hank Aaron -
We are not only interested in those aspects of the mystery of the Roman Catholic Church which set her apart from the other Christian communities, but also to show how often they are central beliefs by describing what is specifically Catholic in such a way that the partner in dialogue can see, even from his own standpoint, the inner consistency.
-- Hans Urs von Balthasar -
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Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.
-- Harsha Bhogle -
Fitness begins with initiative and continues with consistency. The six pack abs is a byproduct of being healthy.
-- Hrithik Roshan -
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 -
Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.
-- Hugh Prather -
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Consistency is very important when you're making films.
-- Ian McDiarmid -
Amid the welter of vague political abstractions ... where meanings shift so quickly and so subtly, not only following changes of thought, but often manipulated artificially by political practitioners so as to obscure, expand, or distort ... a certain broad consistency in its relations to other kindred terms is the nearest approach to definition which such a term as Imperialism admits. Nationalism, internationalism, colonialism, its three closest congeners, are equally elusive, equally shifty, and the changeful overlapping of all four demands the closest vigilance.
-- J. Allan Hobson -
Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don't have to worry about what will happen. Instead, they know what will happen based on earlier experience.
-- Jakob NielsenSource : "Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design". www.nngroup.com. January 1, 2011.
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If you talk to any pitcher, consistency is the most important thing.
-- Jamie Moyer -
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History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
-- Jared DiamondSource : Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.322, Penguin
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Your personal brand is a promise to your clients... a promise of quality, consistency, competency, and reliability.
-- Jason Hartman -
You will make mistakes, disappoint God and others, and have days when you wonder why God ever called you in the first place. Don’t despair! Your usefulness to God is based on His consistency, not yours. Your call is sustained by God’s faithfulness, not yours.
-- Jeff Iorg -
There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world.
-- Jennifer James -
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[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
-- Jeremy Bentham -
...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
-- Jeremy BenthamSource : John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.11, Hackett Publishing
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Good acting is consistency of performance.
-- Jim DaleSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.
-- Jim TresselSource : Jim Tressel (2010). “The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life”, p.100, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
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True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
-- John C. Calhoun -
Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.
-- John C. MaxwellSource : John C. Maxwell (2012). “The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential”, p.74, Hachette UK
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
-- John Cage -
Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice.
-- John Surtees -
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And fortunately, I haven't had any problem with my voice. I've been able to sing at a level of consistency that the people are expecting.
-- Johnny Mathis -
Truth isn't beauty. It isn't even always true. Truth is nothing more than consistency of message. I learned that from advertising.
-- Josh Kilmer-Purcell -
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.
-- Joyce Carol Oates -
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The present author humbly confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art.
-- Julian CoolidgeSource : Julian Lowell Coolidge (2004). “A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves”, p.10, Courier Corporation
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Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.
-- Junior Seau -
Thank God for my hobgoblin, small-minded consistency...
-- Kate ChristensenSource : Kate Christensen (2009). “Trouble: A Novel”, p.32, Anchor
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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
-- Kathleen Casey -
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Consistency isn't behaving the same way all the time.
-- Ken Blanchard -
Mentally, (consistency) is important when you're not used to rugby at that level. Some of the smaller teams in this tournament are staying with the stronger sides for 60 minutes, but not the full 80 because of it.
-- Kieran Crowley -
...a consistency proof for [any] system ... can be carried out only by means of modes of inference that are not formalized in the system ... itself.
-- Kurt Gödel -
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 -
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My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.
-- Lee KrasnerSource : Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1999). “Lee Krasner”, Harry N. Abrams
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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 -
Trust is built with consistency.
-- Lincoln ChafeeSource : Lincoln Chafee (2010). “Against the Tide: How a Compliant Congress Empowered a Reckless President”, p.201, Macmillan
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Our hypotheses are initially rooted in theoretical consistency and elegance, but...ultimatel y it is experiment not rigid belief that determines what is correct.
-- Lisa Randall -
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
-- Lord Byron -
When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.
-- Lynn Hill -
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
-- Malcolm Gladwell -
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 ***** sapiens , provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge -
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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.
-- Marcus Vitruvius PollioSource : Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.12
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There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
-- Mark Twain -
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 PlimptonSource : "'Raising Hope's' Martha Plimpton on Her Emmy Nomination, 'I Was Doubly Surprised'". Interview with Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 13, 2011.
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