Quotes About Consistency

Instead of celebrating how many people came, the most important measurement would be how many came back.

I'm often asked how in the world we can develop life-changing sticky relationships in just ten weeks. Fact is, we can't. But by stringing together enough ten-week sessions, we end up with something much deeper than we'd ever get with a mere six-month or one-year commitment—and very little weaseling.

I grew up in a church where we studied one passage or topic in the Sunday sermon, another in Sunday school, still another on Sunday night, and something entirely different on Wednesday night. Frankly, I never had much of a clue as to what we were studying—something related to the Bible, I suppose. The teaching was far too disjointed to create any sense of focus, and for most of us it was more of a data overload than anything else.

Do what you said you would do, when you said you would do it, the way you said you would do it.

What you tolerate is what you endorse.

I have an office in my house, with a comfy red print reading chair and a soft cream-colored desk. After I walk Winston the Wonder dog and have my breakfast, I head to my office. Every single day. Sometimes, when I'm working on revisions, I print off my manuscript and go to a coffee shop to work. But mostly you can find me in my office.

Charity should always be a constant.

It's tough. We don't have a character-driven show so I think the fans get really frustrated because they don't get to see any consistency in terms of what's happening romantically. We kind of just have to take it with a grain of salt. It shows up where it shows up.

Which is when I understand, in a flash, what I've been doing wrong with her—what I've been doing wrong in how I've been trying to connect with her. I thought if I were nice enough, sweet enough, she'd understand she could count on me. But that's not how you learn you can count on someone. You learn it in the moments when everyone's too tired to be sweet, too tired to try hard. You learn it by what they do for you then.

I am who I am and always shall be.

Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. . . . They are only changed by the way people treat them.

It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language," he once said. "Horses stay the same from the day they are born to the day they die...They are only changed by the way people treat them." (said about Thomas Smith)

It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.

Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.

I'm simply advising you to remain true to your characters. Nothing can happen now that hasn't been prepared for. As writers, we must stay within the reality we've created.

The "before 3 p.m." part requires a little more explanation. Some research has found that people who exercise regularly are more likely to do so in the morning—because, as we discussed in the morning routine section, mornings tend to be more regimented in people's lives. If you build exercise into your morning routine, it will happen, whereas a planned 5 p.m. workout might be foiled by a meeting that runs late or a kid needing a ride home. Yet

the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.

How to build a resilient schedule Creating a back-up slot for the things that matter starts with figuring out what matters. I asked Tranquility by Tuesday participants to think about things that were important to them but had a tendency to get bumped from the schedule. Maybe it's a Saturday-morning long run with a friend that keeps getting canceled because of rain or complicated family schedules.

En cuanto las actividades se hacen habituales, comienzan a operar como procesos automáticos, los cuales consumen menos fuerza de voluntad.

A better question when asked to take on something in the future: "Would I do this tomorrow?

Your turn THREE TIMES A WEEK IS A HABIT Planning questions: List some activities you'd like to do more frequently in your life. Choose one specific activity to focus on for the next week. When did you last do this activity?

The way I see it, anything you do once a week happens often enough to be important to you, whether it's church, a strategic thinking session at work, your Sunday dinner with your parents, or your softball team practice.

These words of prayer are among the most basic words Dr. Gatewood knows. When he has forgotten everything else, those words are the words he will have. Those words have formed his heart, and—regardless of what he feels or remembers on any particular morning—they continue to form his heart still.

And they would do what they always did.