Quotes About Consistency

Analysis of several hundred people who had accu­mulated fortunes well beyond the million dollar mark, disclosed the fact that every one of them had the habit of REACHING DECISIONS PROMPTLY, and of changing these decisions SLOWLY, if, and when they were changed. People who fail to accumulate money, without exception have the habit of reaching decisions, IF AT ALL, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.

Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst of all enemies, can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage.

If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.

Do not pay attention to what people say, only to what they do, and how much of their necks they are putting on the line.

that he felt proud of his sticking to his strategy for so long

people fit their beliefs to actions rather than fit their actions to their beliefs.

that even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Actions are symmetric, do not allow cherry-picking, remove the free option.

because these professions are more immune to randomness.

just to show that you can walk the walk.

Unreliable people carried less weight than reliable ones. You can't fool people more than twice.*1

I know very few people who, when they say they want to do something, end up doing it.

So to have a pleasant life you should spread these small "affects" across time as evenly as possible.

In a famous argument, the logician W. V. Quine showed that there exist families of logically consistent interpretations and theories that can match a given series of facts. Such insight should warn us that mere absence of nonsense may not be sufficient to make something true.

the more nonlinear the response, the less relevant the average, and the more relevant the stability around such average.

If you lie to me, keep lying; don't hurt me by suddenly telling the truth.

Things that have worked for a long time are preferable - they are more likely to have reached their ergodic states. At the worst, we don't know how long they'll last.

You are buying dependability.

dependability is a driver behind many transactions.

It always returns to its initial state.

A workhorse, not a show horse

The past never changes—and from what I can see, neither does the future.

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

Each day the sea is exactly the same. We seem no closer, and no farther from anything.