Quotes About Consistency

If this could be repeated every day for a year, I would never budge from where I stood.

Aristotle is reputed to have said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

They have a set pattern, and they follow it. They are not making decisions. Here's the very happy implication: the worst, most effortful run will be that first one. Or the second, perhaps. But effort doesn't last (in fact, if it does, you're doing it wrong). Habits will form and take the effort off your hands.

Madness is always having the same result doing something different.

To keep winning, you have to keep training."

Das Wunderbare am Menschen ist, daß er wohl derselbe bleibt, aber nicht der gleiche.

Al??kanl?klar dinlendiricidir, çünkü tekrar edilebilirli?in ve güvenilirli?in damgas?n? ta??rlar.

Human nature must be something which always remains one and the same, but which may be carried out in manifold ways.

The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit

We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world, in which regularities (such as a sequence of six girls) appear not by accident but as a result of mechanical causality or of someone's intention.

The halo effect helps keep explanatory narratives simple and coherent by exaggerating the consistency of evaluations: good people do only good things and bad people are all bad. The statement "Hitler loved dogs and little children" is shocking no matter how many times you hear it, because any trace of kindness in someone so evil violates the expectations set up by the halo effect. Inconsistencies reduce the ease of our thoughts and the clarity of our feelings.

In areas that involve vague criteria and complex judgments, intrarater reliability, as it is called, can be poor.

two basic conditions for acquiring a skill: an environment that is sufficiently regular to be predictable an opportunity to learn these regularities through prolonged practice

The ideal of logical consistency, as this example shows, is not achievable by our limited mind. Because we are susceptible to WYSIATI and averse to mental effort, we tend to make decisions as problems arise, even when we are specifically instructed to consider them jointly. We have neither the inclination nor the mental resources to enforce consistency on our preferences, and our preferences are not magically set to be coherent, as they are in the rational-agent model.

Analysis of thousands of sequences of shots led to a disappointing conclusion: there is no such thing as a hot hand in professional basketball, either in shooting from the field or scoring from the foul line.

The strong bias toward believing that small samples closely resemble the population from which they are drawn is also part of a larger story: we are prone to exaggerate the consistency and coherence of what we see.

Similarly, fingerprint examiners and physicians sometimes disagree with themselves, but they do so less often than they disagree with others. In every case we reviewed in which the share of occasion noise in total system noise could be measured, occasion noise was a smaller contributor than were differences among individuals.

For one thing, it helps us see the logical consistency of Human preferences for what it is—a hopeless mirage

From the perspective of noise reduction, a singular decision is a recurrent decision that happens only once.

Many individual investors lose consistently by trading, an achievement that a dart-throwing chimp could not match.

la confianza viene determinada por la coherencia de la mejor historia que podamos contar partiendo de la evidencia.