Quotes About Consistency

I always liked the 'Mad Men' philosophy where people don't really change.

I have never said no to a film. Except once, 20-25 years ago, when a producer from Madras wanted me to play Jeetendra's father.

My main thing is try to be the best I can every week and if I can do that, maybe I can get myself in a situation where people argue about, 'He's in the top five, or top whatever.'

Once you have success, you have to maintain success.

I practice every day and that kind of stuff to maintain my musicianship.

I'm trying to win every single week. I'm not trying to come out and just win the majors. I'm 23. This is my first full year.

The majors are going to be circled in, just like everyone else, but I've got to focus on every single week.

I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.

Great companies have to manage the cadence of what they do.

It's rare to see Mourinho manage three years at the same team.

Sometimes the manager says one thing and does another thing!

I play at Manchester City. I try and give performances for them game after game.

After one season, I know how well I have to play to keep playing for Manchester United.

I expect positive play from Manchester United all the time, whether you're at home or away.

If you work in a certain manner, you don't make mistakes.

That's been kind of a mantra for me my entire career and something that I think every coach throughout most of my basketball career has told me: I've got to continue, every night, to try to stay aggressive and assert myself.

If you leave a mark, if you're liked by people, then the constant work will keep happening.

Funny the way it was never enough to swear and promise just the once. You seemed to have to rethink and repromise every time the subject came up.

Reading had never let me down before. It had always been the one sure thing.

Our real opinion is not one in which we have never wavered, but the one to which we have most regularly returned.

With the passage of time, the psychology of people stays the same, but the tools and objects in the world change.

Alas, sometimes clever people are too clever for our good. Some well-meaning plumbing designers have decided that consistency should be ignored in favor of their own, private brand of psychology.

Standardization is indeed the fundamental principle of desperation: when no other solution appears possible, simply design everything the same way, so people only have to learn once.

Of all the principles I'd learn about story, the idea that a character is what he does remains the hardest to actually live.