consistency................

 

"Never buck the other man's game, Val," Reilly said, "but watch the percentages.  It is not one or two pots that make a poker player, but the consistency with which he plays."

-Louis L'Amour, Reilly's Luck

consistency......................

 

"Never buck the other man's game, Val," Reilly said, "but watch the percentages.  It is not one or two pots that make a poker player, but the consistency with which he plays."

-Louis L'Amour, Reilly's Luck

Steady....................

 

Unlimited predictability is more valuable than intermittent quality.

-Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time

Consistency....................

 Stop trying to be spectacular. Start being consistent. . . .

Moments don't make legends. Consistency does. And the hardest consistency isn't in doing brilliant things but avoiding stupid ones. Every mistake puts you in hard mode, forcing you to make up lost ground. 

-Farnam Street

My kind of writer...........................

 

"Consistency of tone" is one of those precepts pressed upon writers by writing teachers.  Any reader who expects consistency is likely to be bewildered in what follows, . . .

--Matthew Crawford,  Why We Drive: On Freedom, Risk and Taking Back Control

tree of wealth...................

 

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed.  The first copper you save is the seed from which your tree of wealth shall grow.  The sooner you plant that seed the sooner shall the tree grow.  And the more faithfully you nourish and water that tree with consistent savings, the sooner you may bask in contentment beneath its shade.

-George Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon

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when slow is fast.....................

There is nothing heroic about quick fixes, hacks, or silver bullets, especially given they rarely, if ever, work.  Most breakthroughs rest upon a long-standing foundation of steady and consistent effort.  For so many of the meaningful endeavors in our lives, the best way to move fast is to go about it slowly, to proceed with a gentle yet firm persistence.

-Brad Stulberg, The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds—Not Crushes—Your Soul 

consistency.....................

 The consistency of your endeavors (exercise, companionship, work) is more important than the quantity.  Nothing beats small things done every day, which is way more important than what you do occasionally.

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living

one step at a time..................

 Eating a chocolate bar right now won’t make you unhealthy. Just as not eating it won’t make you healthy. Saving money today won’t make you rich, just as not saving it won’t make you poor. Reading a chapter of a great book today won’t solve your problems just as not reading it won’t make them worse.

Not doing the obvious thing you know you should do — the thing that positions you for future success — rarely hurts you right away. . . . 

For your choices to compound, you need to be consistent. Intensity will only carry you in the short term but if you want compounding results you need consistency. In the absence of immediate rewards, we can keep up the intensity for a while but most of us become intermittent.

 

A lack of consistency keeps ordinary people from extraordinary results. It’s like we’re Sisyphus rolling a boulder halfway up the hill, only to throw our hands in the air and go home. When we show up the next day, we see the boulder at the bottom of the hill. Not only did this undermine our progress but it makes getting started even harder. 

Excelling at the small choices that compound over time perpetually leaves you in favorable circumstances. No matter what happens in the world, you’re never in a position where you are forced into a bad decision.

-from this Farnum Street post

Consistency............................

 For such is the stuff that man is made of:  in principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

-Jeremy Bentham, from An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, Chapter 1:12

Inconsistency.......................

Ernest was at first in doubt whether it would be right for him to assist at religious services more than he was actually compelled to do, but the pleasure of playing the organ, and the privileges which the post involved, made him see excellent reasons for not riding consistency to death. Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed ere long into an amiable indifferentism...

-Samuel Butler, as lifted from Chapter 68 in The Way Of All Flesh

Consistency..........................

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 Emerson, from his essay Self-Reliance

Inconsistency.......................

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

-attributed to Henry Ward Beecher

No worries here..............

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death.

-Aldous Huxley

Don't be afraid........................

Denzel Washington..........................Aspire To Make A Difference

Scott Adams knows a thing or two.....

If you are outside the mass hysteria bubble you might have noticed that President Trump never campaigned to be our moral leader. He presented himself as – in his own words “no angel” – with a set of skills he offered to use in the public’s interest. He was big on law and order, and equal justice under the law. But he never offered moral leadership. Voters elected him with that knowledge. Evidently, Republicans don’t depend on politicians for moral leadership. That’s probably a good call.

When the horror in Charlottesville shocked the country, citizens instinctively looked to their president for moral leadership. The president instead provided a generic law and order statement. Under pressure, he later named specific groups and disavowed the racists. He was clearly uncomfortable being our moral lighthouse. That’s probably why he never described his moral leadership as an asset when running for office. We observe that he has never been shy about any other skill he brings to the job, so it probably isn’t an accident when he avoids mentioning any ambitions for moral leadership. If he wanted us to know he would provide that service, I think he would have mentioned it by now.

-as culled from this blog post

Not sure what he has against bellhops....

Fred Reed takes a hard look at the wide world of columnists:

In Washington, where the rice paddies of self-importance are nourished with the night soil of mendacity, columnists are viewed with the seriousness properly reserved for lung cancer. This is ridiculous. Columnists, the rodent class of journalism, have the dignity of carney barkers and merit the social standing of bellhops. It’s a living. For most of us, barely.

Slow down to go fast..................................

"In other words:  you want big results?  Good -- then do the little things.  Just do them consistently and persistently."
-Jeff Olson,  The Slight Edge:  Turning Simple Disciplines Into Massive Success & Happiness

Believe...................................

"Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized  in  four C's. 

They are Curiosity,Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably."
-Walt Disney

Between.......................................

"Between goals and achievement are discipline and consistency."
-Denzel Washington, as excerpted from here

thanks doug