Quotes About Consistency

We become what we repeatedly do.

This goes to prove yet again that few people stick to the articles of their characters, and will keep breaking away from them.

I am into parallel monogamy.

Truth never perishes (Veritas numquam perit).

A woodpecker can tap twenty times on a thousand trees and get nowhere, but stay busy. Or he can tap twenty-thousand times on one tree and get dinner.

Over the last four years, I've made a habit of coming into my office in the morning and just getting to work.

Never change when love has found its home.

Repetition is a convincing argument.

Maybe five extra push-ups won't matter that night, but what if you do five extra push-ups twice a day six days a week for a year? Or for fifteen years, as I did? Eventually you realize it does make a difference. I was one of those that did extra. If Steve said, "Do a hundred toe-raises and twenty pull-ups," I would do a hundred and five toe-raises and twenty-two pull-ups, while he counted.

excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. you are what you repeatedly do

Many authors have the "write it and it will sell" attitude and are sadly disappointed when their book sales don't explode. Successful authors know that they are their best marketing tool. You must doggedly promote, consistently reach out to media and scheduled events, capitalize on social media to spread the news, and commit to persistently promote your book for it to succeed.

The personality of Jesus emerged from the Gospels with astonishing consistency. Whenever they were written, they were written in the shadow of a personality so tremendous that Christians who may never have seen him knew him utterly: that strange mixture of unbearable sternness and heartbreaking tenderness.

If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball.

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.

Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?

Home runs usually come in bunches for me. If I'm feeling good and I'm on time, I can drive the ball even more.

The one nice thing about doing a character for a long time is, you begin to feel more comfortable, and you are thinking less and behaving more.

All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.

Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.

I could eat black walnut all the time, it's not a flavor of the week!

That's what I am; I'm a drip. You still get hydrated, you still get your nutrients, just a little at a damn time.

Of course, every time I end a book, I look down at myself and I'm just the same. I'm always disappointed that I'm just the same, but not enough to never do it again!