Quotes About Consistency

Amazon's founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, once told me that he is often asked, 'What's going to change in the future?' But he is rarely asked, 'What is not going to change?' 'That second question is actually more important than the first,' he said, 'because you can build a strategy around it.

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

Start small, do what you do with enthusiasm and do it very well. Stick to that and growth will come.

Moreover, one must show, in the historical period of interest, that these heuristics and preferences are consistent across a significant portion of decision makers socialized in this strategic culture before drawing any conclusions about

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

I personally know I can be a 1.000 OPS guy every year.

I don't really think about the personnel too much, I don't have a desired matchup, I just like going out and playing football. I treat everybody the same when I get out there. It doesn't matter if it's Deion Sanders or if it's an undrafted rookie, I'm going to try to go out there and give them work all day.

I'm not those kind of persons that's afraid to be on radio or TV, you know? I'm always the same.

I still write the same way and have the same perspective.

My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.

You can't show up at a church every 4 October and say, 'Vote for me,' and call that persuasion.

I've learned from my pets that it's okay to sit around, and people don't love you any less if you sit around all the time. In fact they might love you more, 'cos they always know where you're always going to be: you're always going to be laying in bed.

I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

If I have to score baskets then I have to try to score baskets and stop missing shots, but even if it's not going, I need to be able to have another phase of the game and not let my offense take away from my defense or rebounds.

Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?

I wasn't a washout before, and I'm not a phenomenon now. I'm a player who, when he's called upon, is almost always there.

Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

My philosophy is if you're a man at night, you gotta be a man in the morning.

A philosophy is important so that everyone is on the same page and there's a consistency of message.

When I was in Phoenix, people started noticing and looking every day to see what I was wearing, but it never really affected me. When you do this every day, it's just something you do. Even in Europe I was getting dressed up for every single game. Nobody may be watching but it's just me. It's how I live and it's how I move.

Not to be arrogant, but I have a lot of hits, so my phone stay ringing, but it's consistent.

For my whole career, I concentrated on that cycle of games from August to May and being mentally and physically ready.