#consistency

Consistency is very important when you're making films. ↗

— Ian McDiarmid

#films #important #making #very #you

A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders. ↗

— Michael Medved

#behavior #beyond #bipolar #breakdown #disorders

To emend one's thinking constantly is a desirable practice, and one I often engage in--sometimes to the point of being almost schizophrenic. But there are cases where one should not parade changes just to prove one is up to date. In the field of ideas, as much as in other fields, monogamy is not necessarily a sign of absence of libido. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#flexibility #ideas #change

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. ↗

— Henry Adams

#education

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#life

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently. ↗

— Anthony Robbins

#motivational #perseverance #motivational

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#foolish #little-minds #philosophers #philosophical

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. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — 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. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#greatness #misunderstood #philosophical

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#consistency #courage #determination #essence #ethos

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry. ↗

— Roger Staubach

#best #chemistry #consistency #team #team sport