Quotes About Inconsistency

To a writer, going on from week to week and from year to year, one of the greatest rewards lies in discovering his own inconsistency. The opinions that he expressed so confidently last year he may repudiate now by expressing view curiously different or wholly antagonistic. If such were not the case he might well be concerned about himself and ask what could be the causes that were keeping him from growth.

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders.

It happens in football. You have bad days.

The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.

Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.

I may see somebody in a club one night and go, Wow, she's the most attractive girl I've seen in a long time. Then I'll see her the next night and be like, Oh no, I don't think so.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But there is always a time and a place for the subsets within genres.

Digital is a disaster. No digital radio has the correct time and they don't even agree with each other.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

And then there is Cate Blanchett. She is different all the time.

Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.

We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

All through his life, he swung between the ridiculous and the sublime

We are a strange people, Howden thought: an unpredictable admixture of mediocrity and genius, with now and then a flash of greatness.

Sometimes. And sometimes not.

human beings are inconsistent: we are easily influenced by suggestion, the order in which we see things, recent experience, distractions, and the way information is framed.

that many decisions made by physicians appear to be arbitrary—highly variable, with no obvious explanation.

what he has found is a stubborn, overwhelming, and embarrassing degree of inconsistency in what we do.

Unfortunately, however, these two theories are known to be inconsistent with each other—they cannot both be correct.

In times of stress, psychological pressures compel us to deny or dismiss inconsistent evidence, pushing us to perceive certainty and clarity where there is neither.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

There'll probably be moments in my life where it seems that people will want to camp out on my doorstep, and moments when no one wants to hire me and couldn't be less interested. I've been around the circus, and it'll come and go.