Consistency Quotations

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need.

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.

I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.

We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

I have had a pretty hardcore crash course on living out of a suitcase. Some people take consistency in their lives for granted. When you have little to none, you discover it's kind of a nice thing.

Nosology (from the Greek 'nosos,' meaning 'disease,' and 'logos,' referring to 'study') is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not for those so scrupulous about rules and order that they demand consistency in all things.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

I love the consistency of working on television. You don't get that in working on film. But, it's all about the right projects. I'm reading different stuff, every single day. I'm actively seeking.

I love soccer, love tennis... Roger Federer has been a favourite for a long, long time. The kind of consistency he has shown, 16 Grand Slam titles... The way he handles himself in pressure situations is admirable... He is so calm... In soccer, I'm a huge fan of Barcelona... I like watching Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and David Villa.

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.

The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

First of all when you're a mommy like you like the consistency of being on a show like that's just peace of mind, I know I have financial, you know stability.

Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year.

There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.

The first complete sentence out of my mouth was probably that line about consistency being the hobgoblin of small minds.

Consistency is very important when you're making films.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn't any consistency.

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. What does that mean? What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before, or we don't have continuity, and we become a little bit disoriented.

I have a corn creamer that I love. It extracts pulp and juice from kernels, and I simmer that down into a creamed corn that has an almost mashed potato-like consistency. I add butter and hit it with chopped fresh chives at the end for an accent of color.

I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.

Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.

What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

Basically, I'm really impressionable and have no sense of consistency in anything I do.

The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.

Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.

I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting.

But I have the satisfaction, at the same time, to reflect that the impression to be made depends upon the consistency of the charge and the motives of the prosecutors.

If we can play like that every week well get some level of consistency.

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

People don't always do what they say they're going to do.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.

Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.

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.

Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.

True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

One of the keys to finding consistency is not being knocked any which way by the hype and the buildup. We've found a way of dealing with that and ... taking our best preparation into the big game.

One of the big things that?s difficult is consistency, and that?s Window?s biggest strength.

On the first day, Luke was steady. He came back even steadier on the second day. In golf terms, he hit the fairways with consistency. He hit 25 of 36 greens and the greens were pretty challenging. They had cut them and then they double cut them so they would be a little bit quicker.

I was prepared for a long match. As soon as I had an opportunity I was trying to make the points shorter and save energy. I'm happy with the consistency of my game, and I tried to keep it up and win as many points as possible.

I would feel much better if we would have some consistency going in from the other spring tournaments, but it just hasn't been there. It kind of makes you wonder if it's all going to fall together or not at the right time.

I was pleased with the consistency of our first-team offense. We went right down the field. But when you're sitting at the one on first-and-goal, you want to punch it in, so we're disappointed in that.

My heart goes out for the girls. I know we didn't necessarily show consistency, but at the end I thought we were a solid basketball team.

Shows consistency. But that's what my goal is: trying to be consistent as often as I can. I've said this (before): If you go out and be consistent and give this team a chance to win with the defense, offense and bullpen we have, we're going to win a lot of games.

One key is how I handle the pitching staff and get the consistency at the plate. I feel our defense will be there, but we will need timely hits.

My expectation is that I want to see actual leases. If they have to be redacted somewhat to ensure privilege, OK. But I want to see lease terms -- square footages and rent levels -- to ensure consistency with the original plan. We want to feel assured that there is a real likelihood that they will be capable of securing the construction loans they need to complete the project.

Potter threw a ton of innings last year, but we've got four, five guys that are pretty good. The consistency has been great because we don't have a No. 1. We haven't had a complete game yet and I don't know if we'll have one all year.

people who are loitering in an area, evaluating the consistency or presence of security measures ... using note taking devices at visual events or a tape recorder at a visual event ... walking in a manner consistent with measuring or pacing.

Next question. One-hundred sixteen? That's a lot of games. It shows you his consistency, his dependability. He's always there, always ready to play.

Obey; this may be right; but beware of reverence. Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention. It is the business of individuals to persuade; the tendency of concentrated strength, is only to give consistency and permanence to an influence more compendious than persuasion.

Now that the medley has qualified we have three relays qualified for the state. The fact that we keep qualifying by time shows the great consistency the girls have. It speaks about the girls' effort and their work ethic.

Rick is our quarterback right now, and unless there's a reason to change we won't change. Obviously, Rick has brought consistency and calmness to our offense.

I'd like to see a little more consistency out of Scooter and Kenny. If they play like they did earlier in the year, they can take us a long way.

I'd like to find an energizer pill to get us going before the first rounds because we need to shoot better early on, but I thought we had a lot of consistency at the end.

If we can do some of the things we've done the last few games, but maybe with more consistency, we can win some games up there. Maybe this is just the start of something bigger.

If we can maintain that kind of consistency, we'll be tough to beat.

Lee's capacity to focus on shareholder returns and the consistency he brought that company will ultimately make him one of the industry's greatest.

Last year, we were strong in hitting and consistency. We see a lot of that again. We seem to have a lot of players that work well together. There's more of a team effort.

We're not convinced with the way we've played, our one-day performance needs consistency.

We need consistency from more than one player. We need it from 7-8-9 down our bench. That's how you beat teams seeded higher than you in the tournament.

Consistency for me is everything.

My immediate goals are to do well at the U.S. Championships and compete well in Europe this summer. I am aiming for consistency and small improvements for this year. There are no major championships this year (i.e. Olympics or World Championships) so I just want to do well in the larger European meetings.

Mike is bringing consistency to his position. He's been a little more aggressive of late and, hopefully, it continues because it's been fun to watch.

She actually averaged two points per game more against Class AA teams than Class A teams, and 45 percent of our games are against ranked teams. Her consistency is what's unbelievable to me.

She doesn't give much guidance to other courts in her rulings, there's a lack of consistency, distinctiveness. Often it seems her opinions are too narrow, reflecting only how it strikes just Justice O'Connor, what she personally thinks.

Let's not forget we've already had a pretty incredible season, and that shouldn't go unnoticed. We still have plenty of time to win a race or races, but our team deserves a lot of credit for the consistency we've had.

Sean Miller's been shooting 80, 80 and 81. That's consistency, but it's not in the 70s.

Scoring points is the big thing for us right now. We need better consistency and execution in our running game or else we will continue to have problems.

She's always been a good golfer, but she's making some good consistent rounds back to back. The biggest change is her consistency to make the good shots all the time.

She's a multidimensional player who is good off the dribble, able to post up and can shoot the (3-pointer). Her consistency is what I was most concerned with, and lately, that has been very impressive.

She's been solid all year and shown a lot of consistency in her wins and effort. We're glad she was recognized with the award and hopefully she and the rest of the team will continue to improve as we head toward the Conference USA tournament.

The primary reasons for the compacted schedule are momentum and consistency.

The primary reasons for the compacted schedule are momentum and consistency. Scheduling our races on a consistent basis in a compacted time frame will give us momentum from the drop of the green flag in Miami into the month of May, right through the heart of our season and into the championship point battle.

What I am looking for basically is improvement and consistency from everyone all around.

Why God should want and need us is a mystery. But it is true: otherwise he would not have created us and life would ultimately have no meaning for us. It is good to remember that in God the is a constancy, a consistency of attitude which never changes, irrespective of what we are or how we act: he never changes in is wanting us or needing us.

I wouldn't say that he has been demoted. The way I'd rather say it is that Sage Rosenfels has earned, through his efforts and consistency and performance through this preseason, the opportunity to compete for the number two position, and he's been put in a position to do that. I don't think anybody has been demoted.

has hit the ball harder with more consistency than anyone on this ballclub. Anytime you have Todd Helton on your ballclub, that's something.

(Green) really had a great day. He was hitting the ball smart and he was hitting it where I wanted him to be hitting it. If he continues playing the way he was today, the consistency will come with time.

Gregg is a valuable and important member of our organization. This is a first step in recognizing his contributions and maintaining consistency among our coaches.