Consistency Quotes

Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.

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.

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

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

When I speak of "cycles," I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

To me, style is consistency.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

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

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

Trust is built with consistency.

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.

First of all when you're a mommy like you like the consistency of being on a show like that's just peace of mind, I know I have financial, you know stability.

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice.

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.

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.