Quotes About Consistency

It's hard to split a man down the middle and always to reach for the same half.

Things do not change with a change of scene.

You got to think about that day, an' then the nex' day. Jus' take ever' day.

Just set one day's work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. And that's the only way it does.

Tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember a story.

The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.

Little things make the big things happen

If a player appeared to be taking it easy in practice, I told him, Don't think you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

there are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.

It's so easy to relax, to cut corners, to let down after you've reached your goal, and begin thinking you can just "turn it on" automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you're there.

when coaches or parents make consistency their foundation, everyone around them becomes more comfortable and everyone around them has a greater opportunity to grow.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur... Don't look for the quick, big improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens- and when it happens, it lasts.

A leader in sports, business, or any other field of endeavor should possess and provide the same qualities inherent in a good parent: character, consistency, dependability, accountability, knowledge, good judgment, selflessness, respect, courage, discipline, fairness, and structure.

Don't think you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

I prize intensity and fear emotionalism. Consistency in high performance and production is a trademark of effective and successful organizations and those who lead them. Emotionalism destroys consistency. A leader who is ruled by emotions, whose temperament is mercurial, produces a team whose trademark is the roller coaster—ups and downs in performance; unpredictability and un-dependability in effort and concentration; one day good, the next day bad.

Gentlemen reformers, beware of this common practice of yours! beware of calling an act evil on Tuesday because that same act was evil on Monday!

Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

You have to actually make the time to practice every day, because otherwise you will not find it.

Following Jesus isn't something you can do at night where no one notices. It's a twenty-four-hour-a-day commitment that will interfere with your life. That's not the small print—that's a guarantee.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

I've always loved working on series. The crew feels like a family and it's nice to have a regular gig that you can count on.

I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

Do what you say you will do.