Consistency Quotes

Facts and values are entangled in science. It's not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other kinds of interests, but because of a commitment to reason, consistency, coherence, plausibility and replicability. These are value commitments.

~ Alva Noë

If you can strike the cord of consistency on the guitar of life, the world will dance to your music of greatness

~ Osho Samuel Adetunji

A truly honorable person, would never convince another to stray, from their personal pursuit of honor. No, only one lacking this noble quality would try to justify and market, an existence without it.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

If EXCELLENCE is one of your values, not only you self-critic and evaluate your performance consistently, you BEG others for honest feedback...

~ Assegid Habtewold

God is like a mirror, consistent, stable, unchanging; reflecting His image of us, that is always changing.

~ Anthony Liccione

To emend one's thinking constantly is a desirable practice, and one I often engage in--sometimes to the point of being almost schizophrenic. But there are cases where one should not parade changes just to prove one is up to date. In the field of ideas, as much as in other fields, monogamy is not necessarily a sign of absence of libido.

~ Umberto Eco

Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless, I'm glad those people don't love me.

~ Marc Bekoff

He was perceived to be intellectually promiscuous, a little too eager to please all groups.

~ David Halberstam

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

~ Aldous Huxley

Sucked in and turned around by the blades, the night at first flows smoothly, but then it starts to take on a denser consistency. Already the night was nearly halfway through its course, so a good portion of it had hardened. Because of this, as I walked through it, it gave me none of the easy, buoyant feeling you get in the early-evening hours. Something about it seemed creaky. But that was, in its own way, typical of the night too.

~ Hiromi Kawakami

Perfection of effort is not required, by the way. It is the consistency of attempting to work these tools that brings the progress. It’s like anything else. If I want to tone muscle, lifting a ten-pound weight a few times every day will move me toward my goal much quicker than hoisting a fifty-pound barbell once a week. Yes, it really is true: “Slow and steady wins the race.” Just try a little, every day. You’ll see.

~ Holly Mosier

A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does!

~ Pawan Mishra

Don't go for knockout in one punch, if your desire is to stay longer in the fight and thrive; go for outlasting them. Take the higher road.

~ Assegid Habtewold

The public never appears to tire of endless courses of strawberries and cream, and the theory that you run the risk of boring people with endless photo montages of the Chelsea Pensioners in their dress reds, or close-ups of a Pimm's Cup sprouting all kinda of flora, has yet to be proven. People like Wimbledon in the same way they like blue jeans or even their own spouses: for the pleasure yielded by their reliable sameness.

~ Peter Bodo

An intelligent consistency is the foundation of genius.

~ Chris Matakas

An inconsistent political philosophy is that which feeds our battle yet starves our victory.

~ Mike Klepper

Subjectivity measures nothing consistently.

~ Toba Beta

life is hard to explain, difficult to understand but you still need life.

~ Malik Daniyal Sakhawat

Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism which to outward appearance differed but little from the indifferentism …

~ Samuel Butler

To the average mathematician who merely wants to know his work is securely based, the most appealing choice is to avoid difficulties by means of Hilbert's program. Here one regards mathematics as a formal game and one is only concerned with the question of consistency ... . The Realist position is probably the one which most mathematicians would prefer to take. It is not until he becomes aware of some of the difficulties in set theory that he would even begin to question it. If these difficulties particularly upset him, he will rush to the shelter of Formalism, while his normal position will be somewhere between the two, trying to enjoy the best of two worlds.

~ Paul Cohen

The harder the struggle, the bigger the gain. The important thing is to stick with it, repetitively and consistently.

~ Mara Schiavocampo

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

~ John C. Maxwell

. . to be exceptional in martial arts, you must possess the 4 C's : Consistency, Commitment, Creativity and Competence

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi

As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...

~ Robert A. Heinlein

I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.

~ Curt Schilling

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

~ Harsha Bhogle

People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for.

~ Mickey Drexler

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

~ Aldous Huxley

I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.

~ Ron Jaworski

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

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

~ Roger Staubach

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

~ Henry David Thoreau

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

~ Maya Angelou

Part of courage is simple consistency.

~ Peggy Noonan

Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.

~ Gabe Newell

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

~ Yukihiro Matsumoto

Trust is built with consistency.

~ Lincoln Chafee

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

~ Robert Rainy

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

~ Lord Byron