Quotes About Consistency

It isn't important how fast you are doing it. What's important is that you are doing it.

you must begin by building a track record of finished tasks.

Slow And steady wins every time.

When you say, 'When I was six years old, … ' the 'I' refers to something that must have been the same at the age of six as it is now. If it isn't the same, … what in the world does 'I' refer to?

CLARITY TRUMPS CONSISTENCY If you can make something significantly clearer by making it slightly inconsistent, choose in favor of clarity.

It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are accidental and statistical: Like lucky cards in poker, you can count on them occurring over time. What was hard was to be good, consistently good, night after night, no matter what the abominable circumstances.

One key to successful programming is avoiding arbitrary variations so that your brain can be free to focus on the variations that are really needed.

This relationship is learned over hundreds if not thousands of examples; what is consistent across examples is not the content of the answer but rather the context, or perspective, from which the answer occurs. That is the case with all other deictic frames, such as I/you, we/they, and now/then.

1. If he has ever treated another woman badly, don't assume it's going to be different with you. 2. If he blames his past problems entirely on the woman, be skeptical. 3. If he blames his past problems on himself, he is probably telling the truth and will probably be the same with you.

The man who is able to make a commitment rarely does this kind of dancing back and forth. He may move slowly, but he continues to move in the same direction.

You, on the other hand, probably have a history of total reliability and dependability. You pride yourself on the fact that people can count on you. In essence, you do what you say you're going to do. Consequently, you think long and hard before you say you will do anything. If you came on to anyone the way he comes on to you, it would mean something. It would mean that you were prepared to do everything possible to try and develop a real, long-term relationship.

you will always have to find out whether a need is transient or persistent

Steven Alm, a judge who devised a "probation with enforcement" program, summed up the reason for the program's success: "When the system isn't consistent and predictable, when people are punished randomly, they think, My probation officer doesn't like me, or, Someone's prejudiced against me, rather than seeing that everyone who breaks a rule is treated equally, in precisely the same way.

A major theme of this book is that none of us, thinking alone, is rational enough to consistently come to sound conclusions: rationality emerges from a community of reasoners who spot each other's fallacies.

I define personal success as being consistent to my own personal mission statement: to love God and love others.

Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.

Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.

Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.

February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.

I love my dogs and I give them affection all the time but it has to be at the right time or they get confused.

Don't force anything. Find what you love and stick with it.

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.