"Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds."
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"I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife."
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"Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds!"
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"I played pretty well in my twenties, don't get me wrong! But my consistency is better [in my thirties], my momentum is better, my wins are quicker."
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"Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down."
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"Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases."
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"My commitment is to truth not consistency."
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"Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time."
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"What I found was an emotional consistency with him. The words, the scenes, the situations - I wasn't mimicking what I thought Branch Rickey's emotional reality would have been."
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"Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect."
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"Mentally, (consistency) is important when you're not used to rugby at that level. Some of the smaller teams in this tournament are staying with the stronger sides for 60 minutes, but not the full 80 because of it."
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"There is no love that rewards with more consistency and provides lifelong passion as the love one has for the world."
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"I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning writing the ending, the last 100 pages approximately, and then part of the morning revising the beginning. So the style of the novel has a consistency."
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"If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said."
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