Quotes About Consistency

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.

Motivation is like taking a bath; If you stop doing it, you begin to stink!

I've always felt that long, slow distance produces long, slow runners.

You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.

There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.

We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.

When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.

Never let your campaigns write cheques that your website can't cash.

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.

Excellence is the result of habitual integrity.

The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.

If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.

We cannot do great deeds unless we're willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.

Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

Beginners are many; finishers are few.

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.

If I don't practice for a day, I know it. If I don't practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don't practice for three days, the public knows it.

Music is my friend, no matter where I go.

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.