Quotes About Consistency

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.

... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

The way I pitch is the way I pitch. I'm not going to change my overall philosophy. I'll just go out and pitch.

Accept changes but be persistent with the process.

My attitude to you will always be the same no matter if you love me or hate me.

Excuses are a promise of repetition.

Where ever you are accepted, stay there.

Do little but be consistent.

When you do exams you never want to be the one who finishes first and you never want to be the one who finishes last.

If you play games with the law of non-contradiction, then every time you open your mouth and say anything, you're cheating. Every time you make a choice in life you're cheating.

Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. [As opposed to the quotation: Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing].

Habit has a kind of poetry.

There is nothing more important in business or politics than a deal is a deal.

In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie.

Just because there is change around us does not mean there has to be change within us.

Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you

Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.