#consistency

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#circumstance #consistency #custom #detail #found

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

— Ian McDiarmid

#films #important #making #very #you

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

Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me. ↗

— Marc Bekoff

#consistency #ethics #love

Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#alienate #amazing #because #before #consistency

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

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#be kind #born #cannot #consistency #courage

To me, style is consistency. ↗

— Adam Ant

#me #style