Quotes About Consistency

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Give willingly, refuse unwillingly," he writes in Émile. "But let your refusal be irrevocable. Let no entreaties move you; let your 'no,' once uttered, be a wall of brass, against which the child may exhaust his strength some five or six times, but in the end he will try no more to overthrow it. Thus you will make him patient, equable, calm and resigned, even when he does not get all he wants.

no matter how huge the changes I'd been through, I was still the same person at thirty that I'd been at twenty-seven and fifteen and nine. And would be (I can now attest to the truth of this) at thirty-eight and forty-four and beyond.

What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can.

If women are friends, they're friends everywhere—in their personal and professional lives. The friendliness of men, on the other hand, can come and go as needed. At

Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

very few people are able to organize and direct followers, which is a far more subtle and multifaceted skill. Leadership is really a form of temporary authority that others grant you, and they only follow you if they find you consistently credible. It's all about perception—and if teammates find you the least bit inconsistent, moody, unpredictable, indecisive, or emotionally unreliable, then they balk and the whole team is destabilized.

her start to go in the house, distract her with hand claps or "Uh Oh!" and immediately take her outside, giving lots of praise and treats for going outside. If you find a puddle or pile after the fact, say nothing to her

Always consider the level of competing distractions before you call your dog to come when he's still in training. We find it useful to think of come training like levels of mathematical ability.

What is it that some women think a man who's been eatin' buffet all his life will suddenly settle in for the same menu every night once he tastes their cookin'?

Things will go better for you during periods when you listen to Thin Lizzy at least once a week.

So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter. (2 Thes. 2:15)

Ich finde es etwas weniger traurig, wenn alles bleibt, wie es immer war.

Always," I say to him. "Every time.

But we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves.

All such advances require only that we live by the principles we claim to espouse but have too long ignored...

I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.

I drew no line between life and art. I was the same on- as offstage.

Sólo de la constancia nacen las grandes cosas

A steady fuck is good for you.

Weigh all your ingredients in grams to achieve greater consistency with your baking.

If you want to teach something quickly, reinforce it every time. But if you want it to stick once the teaching phase is over, reinforce it occasionally

How can he have fears for his future who knows that he is related to God, and that God is the same yesterday, and today, and forever?

This teaching is to live as we think, otherwise, sooner or later, we end up thinking as we lived.