Quotes About Consistency

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.

I'm just trying to get the best sound and have it be consistent and make sense with what I'm going through in my life.

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

You build a successful life a day at a time.

How you start your day is how you live your day. How you live your day is how you live your life.

I am very much a creature of habit, and I have no life consistency. None.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Most people are so constituted that they can only be virtuous in a certain routine; an irregular course of life demoralizes them.

No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up & show up

I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up.

Make the mind, the voice and the actions agree in harmony. That is the right way of life.

No matter how much you may change or how life may change, God never changes, and His promises never fail.

You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

When the lunatic is met with ideas incompatible with his delusion he distorts facts by rationalization to preserve the inner consistency of his delusions.

In healthy development, trust evolves. How do we decide whether to trust? We share a feeling with someone and watch their reaction; if the response feels safe, if it is caring, noncritical, non-abusive, the first step of trust has developed. For trust to grow, this positive response must become part of a relatively reliable pattern… Trust develops with consistency over time.

The term which psychology has coined for our relative imperviousness to the dizzy variations that go on in the world around us is "constancy." The color, shape, and brightness of things remain to us relatively constant, even though we may notice some variation with the change of distance, illumination, angle of vision, and so on.

I'm always right. I'm quite uneasy at being always right so often.

Once a cad, always a cad

Lay down a method also for your reading; let it be in a consistent and consecutive course, and not in that desultory and unmethodical manner, in which many people read scraps of different authors, upon different subjects.

Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances. —C.S. LEWIS

Just because a blindfolded drunk can cross Westheimer Road unharmed in the middle of traffic once doesn't mean he can do it again, Hirs said.

That is why the dissonance-reduction process may result in greater inconsistency among other cognitions. Therefore, the reduction of the ratio, which for us remains the unconditional objective of the dissonance-reduction process, in no way implies that there is consistency among the cognitions that it contains.