Ray Allen
Basketball Player
"It comes down to consistency-if you want to be a great shooter, you have to shoot the same way every time."
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Consistency
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Alan Turing
Mathematician, Logician, Cryptanalyst
"We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge."
Tony Robbins
Author, Life Coach
"For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent."
Epictetus
Philosopher
"It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it."
Slavoj Žižek
Philosopher, Cultural Critic
"As soon as we renounce fiction and illusion, we lose reality itself; the moment we subtract fictions from reality, reality itself loses its discursive-logical consistency."
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"Trust is built with consistency."
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"When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained."
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"Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals."
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"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."
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"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."
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"The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds."
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"The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds."
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"There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice."
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"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."
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"As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency."
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"You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power."
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"Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life."
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"Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery."
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"Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales."
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"People don't always do what they say they're going to do."
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"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative."
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"The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts."
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"You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man."
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"the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself."
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"Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body."
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