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“You get paid consistent with your ability to solve problems.”

“You'll see a consistent, like the tea, the tea bags you saw there-you'll see a consistent-did you see the cafeteria? I mean the diner?”

Mean Saws Tea Consistent Bags Diners Cafeteria Tea Bag

Author:Antoine Fuqua

“I would define myself as being naive and perverse at the same time. And I think that if that is consistent it will make the tone consistent.”

Ifs Thinking Tone Consistent Naive

Author:Michel Gondry

“An alarming number of parents appear to have little confidence in their ability to "teach" their children. We should help parents understand the overriding importance of incidental teaching in the context of warm, consistent companionship. Such caring is usually the greatest teaching, especially if caring means sharing in the activites of the home.”

Ifs Should Mean Children Littles Helping Home Parent Ability Numbers Teach Teaching Importance Caring Warm Consistent Companionship

Author:Raymond S. Moore

“Consistent motivation usually comes from a consuming desire to be able to perform at your best under pressure, namely, the pressure produced by tough competition. If a player needed me to light a fire under him by turning the other team into a demon, he was lacking something I couldn't give him.”

Source: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.”

People Life Death Nature Contrary Consistent Consistency Nonconformity Conformity And Individuality

Author:Aldous Huxley

“De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.”

Revolutionary Consistent

Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.”

Ifs Mean One Thing Taught Satan Consistent

Author:Andrew Plotkin

“Once a nation's population becomes prosperous and secure, for example through economic security and universal health care, much of the population loses interest in seeking the aid and protection of supernatural entities. This effect appears to be so consistent that it may prevent nations from being highly religious while enjoying good internal socioeconomic conditions.”

“There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.”

World Way Evil Amount Horror Ultimate Believer Consistent Loving God True Believer Rationalize Fooling Yourself

Author:Jerry A. Coyne

“Living the Christian life is also challenging but for different reasons. The same desire to do well exists - to live a consistent life that honors and pleases the Lord. The big difference is that God isn't evaluating my actions and basing His love on how well I 'perform'. His love for me is unconditional. Even when I mess up He doesn't threaten to trade me off His team.”

Wells Different Reason Bigs Action Christian Life Is Desire Challenges Differences Lord Team Honor Please Trade Christian Life Mess Consistent His Love Unconditional Trade Me

Author:Lance Berkman

“Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.”

Care Plant Consistent Heroic Moderates Intervention Occasional

Book:Gardening 101

Source: Gardening 101

“Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.”

Ifs Mean Reason Life Is Integrity Conviction Ashamed Consistent No Reason Exposed Embarrassed Private Life

Book:The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World

Source: The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World

“In selling his scheme, Obama has been promoting the myth that our system is no better than those of other advanced nations. His recent statements have betrayed his openly contemptuous attitude toward American health care and out top-flight medical profession. His attitude is consistent with his revealed general attitude about America, which he denigrates every time he gets a chance, especially on foreign soil.”

Has Beens Care America Nations Chance Attitude Myth Profession Medical Statements Selling Flight Health Care Soil Consistent Schemes Betrayed Promoting Medical Profession Contemptuous

Author:David Limbaugh

“[The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of which the practice, in a large and vicious community, is seldom consistent with the public safety.”

Law Community Practice Mercy Safety Consistent Empires Penalties Delightful Vicious Humane Roman Empire Theorists Public Safety

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is "bonkers". It was an intellectually consistent theory that enabled them to do pretty mathematics. So I understand its seductiveness to people with large mathematical gifts. It just had a difficulty in that the fundamental assumption did not tie properly to reality.”

People Reality Names Theory Difficulty Mathematics Fundamentals Extremes Mathematical Ties Assumption Consistent Efficient Efficient Markets

Author:Charlie Munger

“The process is really what you have to do day in and day out to be successful, we try to define the standard that we want everybody to sort of work toward, adhere to, and do it on a consistent basis. And the things that I talked about before, being responsible for your own self-determination, having a positive attitude, having great work ethic, having discipline to be able to execute on a consistent basis, whatever it is you're trying to do, those are the things that we try to focus on, and we don't try to focus as much on the outcomes as we do on being all that you can be.”

“God is concerned that Christians live consistent with their profession even in the seemingly small and insignificant areas of life.”

Christian Areas Concerned Profession Consistent Insignificant

Author:Max Anders

“Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.”

Lord All Things Creator Acknowledge Consistent Endeavor Calvinism

Author:J. I. Packer

“You finally have to learn to pull all the different kinds of teaching and training and coaching together on you own, so that your voice and body and technique for a sound that is consistent and solid.”

Kind Different Body Together Sound Voice Teaching Training Technique Coaching Consistent Different Kinds

Book:The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer

“How do you remember everything from different books when you are still writing the HP series? As obsessive fans will tell you, I do slip up! Several classrooms move floors mysteriously between books and these are the least serious continuity errors! Most of the fansites will point you in the direction of my mistakes. But the essentials remain consistent from book to book because the story has been plotted for a long time and it is clear in my mind.”

“...home-schooled students are able to successfully adapt emotionally, interpersonally, and academically to their first, and most challenging, semester in college. That is probably because, having had the consistent teaching and support of a family and a community, they have developed strengths and convictions that provide a bridge over the troubled waters of a multitude of challenges and temptations.”

Firsts Home Able Water Community Challenges Support Teaching Students College Conviction Temptation Bridges Consistent Multitudes Schooled Semester Troubled Waters

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“I infer that God's decrees, and the necessity of event flowing thence, neither destroy the true free-agency of men, nor render the commission of sin a jot less heinous. They neither force the human will, nor extenuate the evil of human actions. Predestination, foreknowledge, and providence, only secure the event, and render it certainly future, in a way and manner (incomprehensibly indeed by us; but) perfectly consistent with the nature of second causes.”

Men Way Humans Action Evil Force Causes Sin Events Secure Agency Consistent Providence Decree Predestination Human Actions Human Will Free Agency

Author:Augustus Toplady

“The problem of creating something new, but which is consistent with everything which has been seen before, is one of extreme difficulty.”

Has Beens Problem Creating Difficulty Extremes Consistent Something New Creating Something

Book:The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter

Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter

“Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.”

Ideas Past Desire Virtue Consistent Betray Historic Implying Goering

Author:Richard Overy

“The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.”

Men Way Purpose Circumstances Consistent Dominating

Book:Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words

Source: Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words

“A worldview is not the same things a formal philosophy, otherwise it would only be for philosophers. Even ordinary people have a set of convictions about how reality functions and how they should live. Some convictions are conscious while others are unconscious but together they form a consistent picture of reality.”

People Should Philosophy Reality Together Form Ordinary Conscious Function Philosopher Conviction Unconscious Consistent Formal Ordinary People Worldview

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“In the evolution of the [The Hunger Games] movie, Gary [Ross] and I talked a lot about tonal bandwidth and making sure that the look and feel and style and choices of the movie stayed within a certain consistent bandwidth.”

Feels Looks Certain Choices Games Style Evolution Hunger Consistent Gary Bandwidth

Author:Nina Jacobson

“Seeds not planted or tended by choice tend to be weeds, so at least for me, it's very helpful to consciously and periodically choose which seeds I want to water, and to think through what I expect to happen from that watering. Investors can spend a lot of time and energy reacting to the latest bits of news and trying to predict the next surprise, rather than choosing a consistent set of daily actions that they can carry out as things develop, regardless of how they develop.”

Thinking Want Trying Happens Action Choices Next Energy Bits Water News Surprise Seeds Consistent Helpful Weed Investors Reacting Time And Energy

Author:John Houseman

“A genuine quality of life comes from consistent, quality questions.”

Quality Genuine Consistent Quality Of Life

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines; they are, on the contrary, the inescapable result of a consistent application of these doctrines.”

War Philosophy Age Results Economic Contrary Doctrine Consistent Application Variance Protectionism

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich.”

Giving Poor Rich Sells Consistent

Author:Holbrook Jackson

“I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even going to be consistent with the same person. People can hold liberal and conservative dogma points at the same time. They're not living their lives via platforms. They're living their lives. The whole thing is an awfully tired construct.”

People Thinking Persons Two Ideas Whole Sides Amount Tired Conservative Consistent Rejects Platforms Dogma Constructs Two Sides

Author:Jon Stewart

“Almost every single person that I've worked with - whether it's been George Clooney or Robert DeNiro or Harvey Keitel, or whoever - the quality that I find that's most consistent in most of the people is the humility.”

People Persons Quality Humility Consistent Single Person Harvey

Author:Malik Yoba

“I was really, really lucky because I have always worked. It hasn't always been consistent, but I have always worked.”

Lucky Consistent

Author:Gwendoline Christie

“I know the next level for me is to make my teammates better, to win a championship, and to where they have confidence that they can score 20 or 15 points a night and be consistent.”

Knows Night Next Winning Levels Score Consistent Championship Teammate Have Confidence Next Level

Author:Michael Redd

“The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is called reductionism: Humans are reduced to biochemical machines.”

Mind Humans Soul Matter Reality Spirit Machines Deny Versions Consistent Materialism Reductionism

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first. So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.”

Writing Firsts Ideas Form Voice Novel Come Up Consistent Hotel Reviews

Author:Rick Moody

“Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.”

Want Desire Teach Too Much Quitting Burning Comedian Consistent Bombing Burning Desire

Book:Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy

Source: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy

“I have been consistent by staying true to who I am and will continue to sing the type of songs that those who have continued to support my career expect from me.”

Has Beens Song Careers Support Type Who I Am Consistent Staying Stay True

Author:Dionne Warwick

“It's an amazingly consistent thing with Irish people. We will talk to strangers at parties for hours. It's what we were bred to do I think. And the Jewish people were bred to write the stuff that we say.”

People Thinking Writing Stuff Hours Party Stranger Consistent

Author:Greg Fitzsimmons

“Honestly, you got to take care of the people that take care of you. I know that sounds like cliche, or borderline phony, but that's the case. The reason I've had the fans that I have is because I've been consistent over the years and kept coming back and doing the same runs. I'm never going to stop doing the cities I've gone through. I'm only going to add.”

People Knows Years Reason Care Running Sound Cities Cases Gone Fans Add Take Care Honestly Consistent Coming Back Cliche Phony Borderline

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.”

Children Father My Family Insult Consistent My Sister Adopted Transgression Adopted Children

Author:Ronan Farrow

“I think the amazing thing about Gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.”

Thinking Doe Lord Generations Music Is Lifts Consistent Resurrection Our Lord Amazing Things Gospel Music

Author:T. D. Jakes

“I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow reasonable doubt.”

Feels Age Force Behinds Sun Clear Doubt Driving Ice Primaries Reasonable Consistent Orbit Interpreting Driving Force Ice Age Reasonable Doubt

Author:George Kukla

“I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a group of musicians and make one record or make one gig and just drop it. Each of them develop over time. I have been really fortunate to keep a band like the Sextet together over three very different albums. Each time, the goal got more deep for me in terms of how I wanted to write for those people. So it is really about trying to develop ideas and trying to have a consistent focus on a way to come up with new ideas in music that I want to do.”

People Thinking Way Want Writing Trying Has Beens Ideas Different Wanted Together Three Goal Term Records Focus Groups Band Projects Musician Come Up Albums Fortunate Consistent New Ideas Gigs

Author:Dave Douglas

“One thing that remains consistent throughout anything I do in life really is remaining true to myself and trusting my gut instincts.”

One Thing Remains Instinct Guts Consistent True To Myself Gut Instinct

Author:Jay Sean

“Your best thing for you to do is learn how to listen and follow positive guidelines which is a skill and to be determined and consistent and you're going to go places in life not only whether you sing but you're getting a basic finish background to do anything you want to do in life.”

Want Skills Determined Backgrounds Best Things Consistent Guidelines Place In Life

Author:Maxine Powell

“While his history of depression is compatible with suicide... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as they are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide.”

Self Known Possibility Circumstances Aspect Raises Suicide Wounds Consistent Location Compatible Homicide Infliction

Author:Elliott Smith

“I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all-important.”

Important Seems Lost Sides Branches Consistent Makers Consistency Credibility Excursions

Author:Joni Mitchell

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