Quotes About Consistency

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

I put out an album once every four or five years and it's kind of like starting over every time.

Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.

Seven innings, three starts in a row, that's an improvement for me, and that's what I want to do: be out there in the game longer.

When you work so much in between starts, you realize how long the season is. It's exciting to look at and be a part of, obviously. It's almost like a challenge, to see how, from start to start, things may feel a little differently.

People lead complicated lives and aren't hanging on your every word or the company mission statement. You have to become a broken record of your expectations of the organization and show people why it is relevant and how it works in specific ways.

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.

I might not like a statute... but if you know what to expect, you can plan. The law is static. It's stable. It gives you confidence. You know you have to act a certain way.

My friends seem to think that an hour and a half effort a day is all they need to bring to the altar to make things work for them. I couldn't do that. I thought that if you didn't work at least as hard as the guy who runs a gas station, then you had no right to hope for achievement. You certainly had to work all day, every day.

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

The station put us on staff at $35 a week... and I mean every week.

The idea is to keep reinventing yourself. Once you attain a certain status as an actor, your fans start expecting from you and you should be able to fulfill them. That's why I try to choose as many different kind of roles as I can so that my fans are not disappointed with me. It would also get boring for me as an actor to keep repeating myself.

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

It's not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.

Of course you learn from certain moments, and you always get more and more experience, so maybe in the future you will do some different things, but in general, the basics always stay the same.

I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.

I've found that it's easier to stay in shape than it is to get into shape.

My mantra is 'stay perpendicular.' Horizontal is not as good.

You need to stay in that one position to get consistency that way. Different things are going through your mind when you are playing out right to when you are playing through the middle, so you can't get through that routine of where you want to play.

The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.

I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.

I've always kept it very simple. I'm a big believer that basics stay the same for all the formats.

My goal when I got drafted was to always stay in one place the whole time. No matter what the situation was.