“I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.” RunningRaceBreatheRelaxConsistentTransitionStarters Author:Donovan Bailey
“St. Augustine explicitly warns against a very narrow perspective that will put our faith at risk of looking ridiculous. If you step back from that one narrow interpretation, what the Bible describes is very consistent with the Big Bang.” IfsBigsStepsRiskPerspectiveRidiculousConsistentInterpretationBangsAugustine Author:Richard Dawkins
“I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the story, then we can say this has changed. Until then, these are steps to change if they're consistent.” IfsThinkingStoriesStepsChangedConsistent Author:Ava DuVernay
“Some people have described Daoism as pantheist, and although there's something in me that resists this designation, I can see that Daoism is consistent with pantheism. If there is any way in which pantheism makes sense and is not redundant, then it is the way (or 'the Way') presented in Daoism.” PeopleIfsWayI CanMake SenseConsistentPantheismRedundantDesignation Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“My process is always the same. Maybe that's why I stay so consistent, it really doesn't change. I only know one way to record and do things.” KnowsWayProcessRecordsOne WayConsistent Author:Keith Sweat
“Sometimes when you're producing or directing something, and which I've been at fault to do in the past, you find yourself trying to do a portion of everyone else's job because you're just trying to be so in control and you think that you have to be hands on, on absolutely everything. You give your sense, you give your keynote to make sure the DNA is consistent. I think that's all you can really do.” ThinkingGivingTryingSometimesHandsJobsPastFaultsConsistentFinding YourselfPortionsDna Author:Wilmer Valderrama
“Stay consistent with your message and who you are.” MessagesWho You AreConsistent Author:Wilmer Valderrama
“A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript of a talk to a writers conference in Australia in 1996, where I had been asked to talk on "writers and intellectual responsibility" - a question that I said I found "puzzling," because I knew of nothing to say about it beyond truisms, though these were perhaps worth affirming because they are "so commonly denied, if not in words, then in consistent practice."” IfsSaidLyingFoundSpeakResponsibilityPracticeIntellectualStatementsConsistentAppropriateAustraliaDeniedExpansionConferencesSpeak The TruthAffirmingTruismPuzzling Author:Noam Chomsky
“I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.” ThinkingShouldHas BeensAbilityViewsInfluenceMilitaryEventsShapesToolsConsistentBroadsUnderestimateMilitary PowerToolboxAmerican Power Author:Barack Obama
“Ronald Reagan came to office and had already been an experienced politician as governor of California, whose ideology and ideas, no matter how simplistic or no matter how much you may disagree with them, were fairly well-developed and fairly consistent. Donald Trump is a real-estate branding operator and a reality-show television star whose entrance into big-time politics, as a victor, as someone who will now wield tremendous power, was as shocking to him as it was to everybody else.” WellsMayIdeasRealMatterShowsBigsRealityStarsTelevisionTrumpPoliticianOfficeIdeologyCaliforniaConsistentDisagreeGovernorsBrandingEstatesShockingEntrancesReality ShowsOperators Author:David Remnick
“The Office of Government Ethics has taken the right position on this, one consistent with many Republicans and Democrats. And by the way, OGE and Walt Shaub in particular, were very, very helpful in moving the [George W. Bush] nominees through. This is not a partisan organization at all.” WayGovernmentMovingTakenPositionParticularRepublicanOfficeEthicsOrganizationDemocratConsistentHelpfulPartisansWalt Author:Reince Priebus
“I'm very optimistic. I think if you would describe me, my pretty consistent affect is that I'm a pretty happy person.” IfsThinkingPersonsOptimisticConsistentHappy PersonDescribe Me Author:Anna Quindlen
“I only have one why, and my challenge is to make sure the things I say and the things I do remain consistent for as often and as long as possible.” LongChallengesConsistent Author:Simon Sinek
“When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started to pick up the pace.” BookLowsPicksSellingConsistentPace Author:Simon Sinek
“Start with why. And work really hard to make sure you're consistent.” HardConsistent Author:Simon Sinek
“I'm consistent, and they know I don't waver and all that. I'm dependable.” KnowsConsistentDependable Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Some people don't want to be morally consistent. They just want to be tied to their one issue.” PeopleWantIssuesConsistentTied Author:Cornel West
“Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.” WantedSpeakKingsRacismVariousConsistentLutherSpeaks Out Author:Cornel West
“Sustaining innovations are the key to consistent performance, whereas disruptive innovations are the key to dramatic changes in power.” KeysPerformancesInnovationDramaticConsistentSustainingDisruptiveDramatic ChangeDisruptive Innovation Author:Geoffrey Moore
“I find it perfectly consistent for libertarians to operate on the municipal or county level, where they are close to the people and where they may have a party or a federation that is made up of the social institutions, the residual social institutions that still remain, over and beyond what the State has managed to preempt and absorb.” PeopleMayMadeStillsStatesSocialLevelsPartyInstitutionsLibertarianConsistentCountyFederationSocial InstitutionsResidual Author:Murray Bookchin
“We will never meet our own expectations of public education unless the federal government is willing to play a consistent, long-term role; unless education truly becomes a matter of national policy, not just a matter of national rhetoric.” LongMatterPlayGovernmentTermRolesPolicyWillingExpectationsLong TermConsistentRhetoricFederal GovernmentPublic Education Author:Carly Fiorina
“Mein Kampf, this terrible book of Adolph Hitler is outlawed. I made a point in the Dutch parliament that I say to all these liberal politicians and socialist politicians in my own parliament that, "Hey you are very happy here, you applauded the fact that Mein Kampf was outlawed in the Netherlands. If you are really consistent, you should, for the same arguments that you use as liberal politicians to outlaw Mein Kampf, outlaw the Koran as well."” IfsShouldWellsMadeBookFactsUseMy OwnPoliticianTerribleArgumentHeyConsistentSocialistVery HappyParliamentDutchOutlawHey YouMein KampfNetherlandsAdolph Hitler Author:Geert Wilders
“If you're saying that Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu got fired up, he's been fired up repeatedly during the course of my presidency, around the Iran deal and around our consistent objection to settlements.” IfsCoursesDealsMinistersConsistentIranPrimePresidencyPrime MinisterObjectionsSettlementFired Up Author:Barack Obama
“I, for one, despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I lived there for a year. I've seen it. And the same for Wyoming, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. They all have parts of their state where that really matters. And I think that home-state constituency issue is a pretty constant one. And I think the problem of extreme lobbying by the corporate sector, which runs about $30-to-$1 compared to everybody else in the world, and the constituent aspect combines to give those industries a consistent advantage.” ThinkingWorldNeedsGivingYearsCountryMatterStatesProblemHomeRunningIssuesIndustryAdvantageAspectConstantWestClimateExtremesDespiteCorporateConsistentCoalSympatheticVirginiaOhioConstituentsHawksPennsylvaniaKentuckyLobbyingWest VirginiaWyomingHome State Author:Sheldon Whitehouse
“Who's the big government guy? These labels are nonsense. And the Tea Party, if you want to call them working class, you know, a working-class insurgency from below, they are a mass of contradictions; they don't have a single consistent viewpoint; but part of their impulse is to be wary of government.” IfsKnowsWantBigsGovernmentGuyPartyClassMassLabelsTeaImpulseConsistentContradictionNonsenseWorking ClassViewpointsTea PartyBig GovernmentInsurgency Author:Bill Ayers
“There are estimates that we daily walked for 10 - 20 kilometers for hundreds of thousands of years. The world's best problem solving machinery grew up under conditions of consistent, strenuous physical activity. It makes sense that when we don't recreate the environments in which the organ was forged, we get a loss of function. And that when we do restore those environments, we get that function back. The effects of aerobic exercise on executive function skills is a powerful empirical example of this idea.” WorldYearsIdeasProblemLossPowerfulEnvironmentConditionsEffectsExampleGrewExerciseActivitySkillsGrew UpFunctionMake SenseConsistentExecutivesOrgansProblem SolvingMachineryForgedPhysical Activity Author:John Medina
“[Donald] Trump has been very inconsistent on many things; on Twitter he's been all over the place, but some of it is very consistent. That is: Do nothing about climate change except make it worse. And he's not just speaking for himself, but for the whole Republican Party, the whole leadership. It's already had impact, it will have worse impact.” Has BeensWholePartyTrumpRepublicanImpactClimateClimate ChangeConsistentRepublican PartyInconsistent Author:Noam Chomsky
“In matter-ism (materialism), there can be nothing wrong with the world since there is no right way for the world to be in the first place. Everything is just matter in motion and that's that. In Mind-ism (monism) there's a different route to the same problem. There cannot be a problem of evil, even in principle, since in Mind-ism even morality is maya; illusion. In neither story, then (if we're to be consistent with their principles), can the issue of evil be raised. But in real life the problem comes up all the time. That's the difficulty.” IfsWorldWayMindFirstsDifferentRealMatterStoriesProblemEvilPrinciplesIssuesMoralityIllusionDifficultyRaisedCome UpReal LifeConsistentMaterialismRoutesRight WayIsmsProblem Of EvilMaya Illusion Author:Greg Koukl
“Being out of the mainstream is entirely consistent with the way Donald Trump is approaching his presidency.” WayTrumpConsistentMainstreamPresidency Author:Tom Gjelten
“My approach is to be honest-really honest-and consistent. That is what any growth will take. It is an issue I think [young] generation can be courageous enough to comb through.” ThinkingEnoughYoungGrowthIssuesGenerationsHonestApproachBeing HonestConsistentCourageousBe CourageousCombsYoung Generation Author:Michaela Angela Davis
“When I went in there, we used drum machine on "Time After Time" and "Human Nature".We don't use the drum machine to play a pattern. You play the pattern by being consistent.” HumansPlayUseUsedHuman NatureMachinesPatternsConsistent Author:Miles Davis
“How can we be enemies when there is so much that pulls us together? But in general I found that I had to work with each one of my foreign colleagues in a way that was consistent with their system. Some are democracies, some are not.” WayTogetherFoundEnemyDemocracyConsistentColleagues Author:Colin Powell
“I don't think that stability and the status quo go together at all, not in a flat world where people are integrated, where women are assuming new roles, where young people want to be consulted and participate. I think the trick is to open up, move down the path of reform, do it in a way that is consistent with your own society's stability and culture, and just don't think you can do nothing.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantTogetherMovingYoungCultureCan DoRolesPathAssumingTricksReformConsistentFlatsStabilityStatus QuoIntegrated Author:Thomas Friedman
“I am very grateful for the Catholic Church and its unwavering stance on life. They have been a consistent, uncompromising voice defending life.” Has BeensVoiceChurchCatholicGratefulConsistentCatholic ChurchStanceUncompromisingUnwavering Author:Steve Daines
“It is perfectly consistent - and also true - to say that the world poverty problem today is smaller (relative to world population) than before and yet also a much graver injustice.” WorldProblemTodayPovertyInjusticePopulationConsistentRelativeWorld PovertyWorld Population Author:Thomas Pogge
“The weaknesses and biases of the international mechanisms of accountability make it seem desirable to extend the domain of accountability by empowering domestic courts to act as agents of the world legal system. Even if there is no consistent application of Universal Jurisdiction, it still leads those who might be prosecuted to alter their travel plans to avoid even the complication of waiting for a complaint to be dismissed.” IfsWorldStillsSeemsMightWaitingPlansWeaknessUniversalCourtInternationalAgentsEmpoweringConsistentAccountabilityApplicationMechanismComplaintsDesirableDomainComplicationLegal SystemJurisdiction Author:Richard A. Falk
“It is on balance desirable to encourage Universal Jurisdiction, and to create pressure from below to make application of such jurisdiction as consistent as possible. I think this will act as a deterrent in some situations, although this impact will never be acknowledged by those affected as it would only embolden civil society to intensify its pressures.” ThinkingSituationBalanceUniversalPressureImpactConsistentAffectedApplicationDesirableCivil SocietyJurisdictionDeterrent Author:Richard A. Falk
“The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.” WayRealityFacesDependsTasksConsistentDaily Life Author:James Howard Kunstler
“I've got a solid grounding in history, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, etc etc. That means I actually have a good idea about how societies change and evolve. I know how a lot of them have actually functioned through the years. I can put together a culture that's cool and different, while still being logically consistent, so that it feels real. So many fantasy worlds are either implausible, cookie-cutter, or both. Mine aren't.” KnowsWorldFeelsYearsMeanStillsI CanIdeasDifferentRealPhilosophyTogetherCultureFantasyKnow HowMinesEvolveConsistentEtcGood IdeasSociologyCookiesAnthropologyThrough The YearsGroundingFantasy WorldsCuttersCookie Cutters Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I think in L.A. everybody has a really cool flare, trendy style here. I think I kinda adapt be it I'm a little more trendy in L.A. Somewhere in New York, I could literally sit at a café and have a cappuccino and watch people walk by and it's like a fashion show to me. Compared to somewhere like Miami where I literally wear beachwear all day and I can walk around barefoot. My style is consistent. It may bend a little bit according to cities, but that's about it.” PeopleThinkingMayLittlesI CanShowsBitsWalksCitiesWatchesFashionStyleNew YorkLittle BitConsistentReally CoolMiamiBarefootTrendyFlareFashion ShowCappuccino Author:Kelly Rowland
“You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.” MoralSandConsistentShiftingWorldviewRelativismMoral RelativismShifting Sand Author:Lee Strobel
“Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not seen as legitimate aspects of Sudanese identity.” Has BeensIdentityBattleConflictAspectFundamentalsConsistentSudan Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“If I'm gonna put a message out there, I want to make sure I stay consistent. I'm up on my game, because I said it. People take your words and they live by them.” PeopleConsistentLive By Author:Young Jeezy
“Almost everything that's happened in my poetry is what you might call organic. I don't do much preconceiving. The only consistent plan I've ever had is to try to break my patterns, my habits, my kneejerk tendencies in writing. If I start to sound too much like the Ron Padgett that I've read before, I stop myself. I don't want to get locked perpetually in a mode or a level of diction or a stylistic vein - what is called a poetic voice.” WritingTryingBreakHabitConsistentPoetry IsPoetic Author:Ron Padgett
“The issue of the American justice system is so much broader than any one party, or any area of the country, or any one policy, because the totality of it is that it's driven by the underlying politics. The underlying politics are white fear and wrath and punishment. And that's what tends to be consistent. As I say in the book, that's the magnet that's drawing the iron filings into alignment. That's the thing that's powering all of it. The gravitational pole of those politics operate on each of these disparate little actors.” BookCountryJusticePartyPolicyDrivenConsistentAlignmentJustice SystemMagnet Author:Chris Hayes
“Think bigger than society lets you think. And find mentors. My life is filled with people who knew me when I was 19 and had a horrible South African accent and bleach-blond hair and who believed in me in a way that was brutal. They were just unbelievable and consistent and smart. Find mentors who, every time you're with them, you're being schooled. Just absolutely schooled.” PeopleThinkingSmartHorribleConsistentMentorBrutalSouth AfricaUnbelievableFind MeThink Big Author:Charlize Theron
“I think, on the foreign policy side, that there is a need for disruption. We've had three administrations follow a pretty consistent policy toward North Korea, and it really hasn't gotten us anywhere.” ThinkingPolicyConsistentForeign PolicyNorth Korea Author:Robert M. Gates
“You never have a consistent job as an actor, so you're always looking for the next thing. It's defined by the opportunities that come across your doorstep at the time. A career is totally in the hands of fate, in terms of how those opportunities arise.” OpportunityTermFateConsistent Author:Ruth Wilson