#consistency

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. ↗

— Criss Jami

#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite

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. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#behave #certain #comes #consistency #dimensions

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

As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have... ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#jubal #religion #rules #religion

It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#consistency #details #dramatic-effect #facts #sherlock-holmes

The only way to be completely self-consistent is to be constantly uttering paradoxes. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #paradox #funny

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

— Lord Byron

#arises #consistency #except #i #indifference

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

— Roger Federer

#consistency #consistent #early #get #i

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. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#capacity #consistency #cycles #homogeneity #i

Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do. ↗

— Barbara Coloroso

#consistency #counting #going #mean #need