Quotes About Consistency

It may take several times, but if you are consistent, they will learn to consistently obey, even in your absence.

It just takes a few minutes to train a child not to touch a given object. Most children can be brought into complete and joyous subjection in just three days. Thereafter, if you are consistent, the children will remain happy and obedient.

As long as parents remain consistent, the child will consistently obey. This "obedience training" is conducted with quiet patience. The spanking is not punishment and is not very painful. It merely gives weight to your words.

Like pigeons.' 'What's so mysterious about pigeons?' 'They're always the same size. You never see baby pigeons or old-age pigeons.

I learned a spell many years ago from an Inuit shaman. It changes the consistency of running water, turning it to something like thick sticky mud. Effectively, it allows you to walk on water. Inuits use it when they're hunting polar bears out on ice floes. I wanted to see if it worked on warm salt water.

The components of a philosophy must stand or fall on their own internal consistency or empirical support, regardless of the founder's or followers' personality quirks or moral inconsistencies.

In all, it is important to recognize the complexity and perhaps even unavoidable contradictions that reside within human morality. Its multiple sources and layers can never be applied consistently in all situations, given the messiness and unpredictability of human social life.

You can't be a trader when you're right and an investor when you're wrong. That's how you lose.

The players who score the most runs are home run hitters, not those with consistent batting records. "It's the same with trading. Consistency is something to strive for, but it's not always optimal. Trading is a waiting game. You sit and wait and make a lot of money all at once. The profits tend to come in bunches. The secret is to go sideways between the home runs, not lose too much between them."12

Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same.

If it works, don't fix it; do more of it.

Je bent nog steeds mijn vriend!' riep ze uit. 'Ik ben nog steeds dezelfde Renn!

God's word is consistent and true.

God is certainly a keeper of His word,

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

El modo de dar una vez en el clavo, es dar cien veces en la herradura.

Los hombres de palabra primero dicen una cosa y después la piensan, y por último la hacen, resulte bien o mal luego de pensada; los hombres de palabra no se rectifican ni se vuelven atrás de lo que una vez han dicho.

A man who succeeded in never contradicting himself was to be strongly suspected of never saying anything at all.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

Não esperes nunca de mim que eu seja fiel a qualidades que não tenho. O que podes contar é com as que tenho, porque nessas não te falharei nunca.

Control over consciousness is not simply a cognitive skill. At least as much as intelligence, it requires the commitment of emotions and will. It is not enough to know how to do it; one must do it, consistently, in the same way as athletes or musicians who must keep practicing what they know in theory.