Quotes About Consistency

All these thousands of miles later, all these different people I've been, and it's still the same story. Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?

How is it that you keep mutating and can still be the same virus?

Je?li raz przekroczysz jak?? granic?, ju? zawsze b?dziesz j? przekracza?.

The way you can move from city to city and always find a Catholic church, the same Mass said everywhere, no matter what foster place the kid was sent, he could always find the Internet. The truth was, if Christ had laughed on the cross, or spat on the Romans, if he'd done anything more than just suffer, the kid would've liked church a lot more.

To succeed consistently, good managers need to be skilled not just in choosing, training, and motivating the right people for the right job, but in choosing, building, and preparing the right organization for the job as well.

Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.   When

A good theory doesn't change its mind: it doesn't apply only to some companies or people, and not to others. It is a general statement of what causes what, and why.

You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.

Try to finish everything. You'll always find your enthusiasm for a project waning as it goes on, and you'll be tempted by a new idea, but learn to ignore the latter and continue with the former. If you start abandoning work, you set a bad precedent, and establish a pattern for the years to come. And be nice to booksellers: never let them pay for a round.

A snake can shed its skin but it still remains a snake.

The only thing predictable about you is that you consistently appear when you suppose I least expect it. Perhaps that will be your undoing; for now I shall expect to see you every time I turn around.

Think of prayer as a fundamental exercise we use to build core spiritual strength. Like exercise for our bodies, it has to be consistent—every single day—to build strength.

When they were alone, they said nothing. They looked at the view; they looked at what they knew, to see if what they knew might perhaps be different today. Most days it was the same.

I have been longing for inner consistency.

Dick, you're better than I am said Clarissa. You see all around, where I only see there she pressed a point on the back of his hand That's my business, as I tried to explain at dinner. What I like about you, Dick, is that you're always the same, and I'm a creature of moods. You're a pretty creature anyhow he said, gazing at her with deeper eyes. You think so, do you? Then kiss me.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

The distinct feature of everything extant is its monotony.

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,....

I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody–somewhere–was practicing more than me.

Follow-through is the cornerstone of execution, and every leader who's good at executing follows through religiously. Following through ensures that people are doing the things they committed to do, according to the agreed timetable.

More than habits, often based in culture and tradition, norms are regularities in behavior to which people generally conform (Ullmann-Margalit, 1990).

The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.

If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course?