#consist

It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#consistent #crimes #done #errors #more

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#consistently #creature #day #earth #ever

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#consists #difficult #making #management #much

Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#basis #been #demonstrated #fact #faith

He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it had addressed hundreds of other boys, all varying in character and capacity, had enabled him to dash through his tasks, always with fair credit and often with distinction, but in a fitful, dazzling way that had confirmed his reliance on those very qualities in himself which it had been most desirable to direct and train. They were good qualities, without which no high place can be meritoriously won, but like fire and water, though excellent servants, they were very bad masters. If they had been under Richard’s direction, they would have been his friends; but Richard being under their direction, they became his enemies. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#education #intelligence #education

His effect on men is one of interest and curiosity, not of admiration and loyalty. His power is the power of gifts, not character. Men watch him, but do not follow him. ↗

— William Manchester

#men

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#success #nature

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#greatest weakness #human #human nature #inconsistency #mutability

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun. ↗

— Woody Allen

#consists #fun #his #man #mind

To me, style is consistency. ↗

— Adam Ant

#me #style