A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: consistency foolish little-minds philosophers
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.
Maya AngelouTags: strength persistence inspiration courage virtue goodness determination self-reliance consistency character essence ethos fortitude life-lessons resolve virtues
Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
Oscar WildeTags: consistency
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Aldous HuxleyTags: consistency
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard BerensonTags: ignorance consistency growth development nuance
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: writing sherlock-holmes consistency facts accuracy details dramatic-effect
Subjectivity measures nothing consistently.
Toba BetaTags: consistency subjectivity feeling measure
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.
Anthony RobbinsTags: motivational consistency perseverance
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: greatness consistency misunderstood
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 DickensTags: intelligence education consistency
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