Quotes About Consistency

You've got organizations out there that are consistently at a high level. They're known to play the right way at the right time.

Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

That's what a professional does, focuses every week, every practice, every play, every game, every ounce of energy you have.

I have always put the same effort in all my films irrespective of their outcome.

I don't take my work ever for granted. I still work very hard on every song and try to outdo myself every time.

I've played the outfield my whole life. It's like riding a bike.

I'm a big fan of matching outfits in general.

I just kept trying to tell myself, Don't be a hero and make a 3. If you keep making 4s, I think I'll eventually outlast somebody.

You know, even with the 'Awkward Black Girl' episodes, they come out once a month. That's great for me, it's comfortable, it gives each time to digest, time for new people to get on to it and caught up, but oftentimes I have people who are almost demanding a higher output from me.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

You're as good as your last game, and that's how you get over it in any walk of life.

There's two facets of this game. You know, if I'm not making shots, OK, then I have to do something on defense. So if I'm missing shots or making shots, it doesn't affect my overall game.

Every time you come out of the team I know you don't just disappear, you don't just become a bad player overnight.

I scored nine goals for Hull and a hat-trick for Scotland in the first half of the season, you don't do that and then become an average player overnight, so I know I can contribute to West Ham.

I think average investors should not trade a lot. The evidence is overpowering. The more you trade, the less you earn.

I've been playing consistently overseas for 12 years straight with no real offseason. I also have other endeavors in my life that I want to see. Getting married, having children, those kinds of things. The older I get, the more challenging those become.

You always have to continue working, because everybody is. Once you stop, the others will overtake you.

Team jell takes time, and, during much of that time, the composition of the team can't be changing. If you need to use a reactive strategy of contract labor, your team will probably never jell. In fact, the workforce you manage almost certainly won't be a team at all.

The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

Their ultimate "strokes of genius" don't come about because they succeed more often than other people—they just do more, period.

The Alignment

A few years ago I made a New Years Resolution never to make another New Years Resolution again and so far it's the only one that I have actually kept.