Quotes About Reliability

Experience drove home the fact that to act consistently acceptant, for example, if in fact I was feeling annoyed or skeptical or some other non-acceptant feeling, was certain in the long run to be perceived as inconsistent or untrustworthy. I have come to recognize that being trustworthy does not demand that I be rigidly consistent but that I be dependably real.

Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

Non ti fidare, ragazzo mio, di quelli che promettono di farti ricco dalla mattina alla sera. Per il solito, o sono matti o imbroglioni!

The most credible answers are the ones given by science, because science IS the search for the most credible answers available, not for answers pretending to certainty.

Science is not reliable because it provides certainty. It is reliable because it provides us with the best answers we have at present. Science is the most we know so far about the problems confronting us. It is precisely its openness, the fact that it constantly calls current knowledge into question, which guarantees that the answers it offers are the best so far available: if you find better answers, these new answers become science.

La precariedad de la verdad no implica que no podamos ponernos de acuerdo.

Why double? Because you are positioning yourself as someone experienced, reliable, who offers what your clients value most, highly recommended by key influencers, and above all, extremely honest to guarantee results based on key concerns (or else you will act responsibly to live up to the credibility you've built), not to mention that your time becomes more valuable as the demand increases.

If you don't perform, you're not credible. And second, transparency. Even when you're not performing well, transparency can help you.

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

seguir nuestro propio camino, la clave definitiva para ser presentadores genuinos y auténticos en los que la gente sienta que puede confiar.

if people do not have responsibility, do not expect them to behave responsibly.

Men will say, "I'll call you. I'll call you." When they say they're going to call, they don't, and when they say they're not going to come, they do.

Does Dashiell actually… do things, I mean, besides protecting you?" I looked down at my dog. The top of his head had been slimed by one of the other dogs. His big meaty mouth was agape and panting, a loop of drool draped delicately over his worm-colored lower lip. And he was covered in dirt. "You thought he was just a pretty face?

The university doesn't THINK; the university KNOWS. If the university says it's Thursday, then it's Thursday.

between the conscious lie to fool others and unconscious self-justification to fool ourselves, there's a fascinating gray area patrolled by an unreliable, self-serving historian—memory. Memories are often pruned and shaped with an ego-enhancing bias that blurs the edges of past events, softens culpability, and distorts what really happened.

You just call out my nameAnd you know wherever I amI'll come running to see you again.Winter, spring, summer, or fallAll you have to do is callAnd I'll be there, hey, hey, yeah.You've got a friend.

Stronger men than he had collapsed beneath life's unpredictable sorrows. He could not look to others for his salvation; other people were unreliable, changeable. He could only count upon his own resources, his own courage, his own need for truth.

Somehow however just knowing that I could fully expect unhappiness to return – if not predictably then nevertheless reliably – was strangely liberating. The point was that even chaos had a structure a beginning and eventually an end. It was possible to live through it. I'd been doing as much for twenty years.

But vows seemed ridiculous -- it was hard enough to keep appointments.

Our favorite messengers are sometimes wrong and our least favorite messengers are sometimes right.

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

Relying on theft and deceit is an unconscious admission of incompetence.

God's mill grinds slow, but sure.