Quotes on Consistency

Consistency is one of the hallmarks of my career. You knew what you were going to get out of E-Smith every game, every year, no matter if I was 22, 21 or 35 years old.

Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. That's the Law of Consistency. It doesn't matter how talented you are. It doesn't matter how many opportunities you receive. If you want to grow, consistency is key.

Success lies in a masterful consistency around a few fundamentals. It really is simple. Not easy. But simple.

Consistency is the DNA of mastery

I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be "consistent," unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Trust must be built day by day. It calls for consistency.

It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.

Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down.

I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency.

Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

Consistency is what counts; you have to be able to do things over and over again.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.