Quotes About Consistency

Prepare for surprises in the second part, where everything changes so that much can remain the same.

But to be God—which of course meant to have been God all along—he had to justify every event in his past, define every action in terms that made it consistent with godhood…there could no longer be any incidents that were too uncomfortable to remember.

Make a plan that truly reflects your goals and interests, and you'll be more likely to execute. Why pretend you're going to work out every single day when you know you're only going to do it three times a week?

Just show up, work hard, and listen. That's your part of the deal. Do the work.

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in its performance.

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

Aristotle had it right, but he was missing a number: "We are what we do repeatedly.

it's nice to know that when you get started each day seems to matter less than learning how to get started consistently, however

Para cambiar radicalmente de vida no necesitas correr una carrera de cien kilómetros, ni doctorarte en nada, ni reinventarte por completo. Son las cosas pequeñas hechas con constancia las que se convierten en algo grande (como

Tracking anything is better than tracking nothing. If you are very overweight, very weak, very inflexible, or very anything negative, tracking even a mediocre variable will help you develop awareness that leads to the right behavioral changes. This underscores an encouraging lesson: you don't have to get it all right. You just have to be crystal clear on a few concepts.

It's not what you know, it's what you do consistently.

Is the method effective?Have you ?narrowed down your material to the highest frequency? Is the method sustainable?Have you chosen a schedule and subject matter that you can stick with (or at least put up with) until reaching fluency? Will you actually swallow the pill you've prescribed yourself?

I use Intelligent Change's bound 5-Minute Journal and suggest it for convenience, but you can practice in your own notebook. It's fun and good therapy to review your p.m. "amazing things" answers at least once a month.

It's usually better to keep old resolutions than to make new ones.

you've crossed a psychological boundary by establishing yourself to the asker as someone who is interested in the type of request being made. Research shows we're remarkably committed to maintaining a consistent sense of external identity, even if we only established it to begin with out of politeness.

Ignore the unfairness—there is no fair. Play the hand that you're dealt to the best of your ability. People are highly consistent, so you will eventually get what you deserve and so will they. In the end, everyone gets the same judgment: death.

Mastery doesn't come from an infographic. What you know doesn't mean shit. What do yo do consistently?

If you want to walk an hour a day, don't start with one hour. Choosing one hour is automatically building in the excuse of not having enough time. Commit to a fail-proof five minutes instead.

the most important lesson of language learning: what you study is more important than how you study.

committed to one push-up before bed. Yes,

For podcasting: In the first 3 to 9 months, you should be honing your craft and putting out increasingly better work. "Good content is the best SEO," as Robert Scoble originally told me. You

Si haces la cama cada mañana, cumples la primera obligación del día. Te confiere un pequeño sentimiento de orgullo y te anima a realizar otra tarea y otra y otra. Al final del día, aquella primera obligación cumplida se habrá convertido en muchas más también cumplidas. Hacer la cama también refuerza la idea de que las cosas pequeñas son importantes en la vida».

Estresado es el término que usa el triunfador cuando quiere decir miedo.» «Los perdedores reaccionan, los líderes se anticipan.» «La maestría no sale de una infografía. Lo que sabes no vale una mierda. ¿Qué es lo que haces de forma sistemática?»

The weatherman had said it might rain, so everyone was sure it wouldn't. In L.A., where the weather is the same three hundred and fifty-five days a year, the weatherman is right about fifteen percent of the time, roughly the same average as the handicappers at Santa Anita, astrologers, and the guys who predict lower gasoline prices. Faith in the U.S. Meteorological Service does not run high in Los Angeles.