#consistency

I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency. ↗

— Curt Schilling

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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. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#audience #consistency #demands #getting #hard

As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial. ↗

— Criss Jami

#aristotle #awesomeness #consistency #excellence #habit

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

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Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent. ↗

— Horace Smith

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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

To me, style is consistency. ↗

— Adam Ant

#me #style

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#last #refuge #unimaginative

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

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