Quotes About Consistency

To invoke alien law when it agrees with one's own thinking, and ignore it otherwise, is not reasoned decisionmaking, but sophistry.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~ Aristotle

Excellence is not an act, but habit.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy.

Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit

LIKE OTHER THINGS ABOUT HER, MARY ANN'S MENSTRUAL cycle was so regular that Mussolini might have included it on his train schedules.

There are no shortcuts—everything is reps, reps, reps.

From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body.

But economical Mother Nature was always repeating herself, on such vastly different scales as the swirl of milk stirred into coffee, the cloud lanes of a cyclonic storm, the arms of a spiral nebula.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

And a singularly consistent investigation you have made, my dear Watson," said he. "I cannot at the moment recall any possible blunder which you have omitted. The total effect of your proceeding has been to give the alarm everywhere and yet to discover nothing.

Une habitude c'est presque une compagnie, dans la mesure où une compagnie n'est bien souvent qu'une habitude.

There should not be the slightest discrepancy between one's beliefs and one's way of life.

It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Stein on Writing

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

It's not what we do once—it's what we do once a day…day in and day out…every day that brings lasting change into our lives.

One dies the way he lives.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Being faithful in the smallest things is the way to gain, maintain, and demonstrate the strength needed to accomplish something great.

Everybody makes mistakes, but when the same ones become consistent, they are commitments.

If you can persist your originality at every situation without masking your face, undoubtedly you are an achiever!

Parents who consistently apply attention—especially in these early years—statistically raise the happiest kids.