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“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.”
Bernard Berenson Quotes |
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“Of right and wrong he taught
Truths as refined as ever Athens heard;
And (strange to tell) he practis'd what he preach'd.”
John Armstrong Quotes Source: Art of Preserving Health (bk. IV, l. 301)
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“No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be
inconstancy.
[Lat., Nemo doctus unquam mutationem consilii inconstantiam dixit
esse.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Epistoloe ad Atticum (bk. XVI, 8)
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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Essays--Self-Reliance
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“With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. . . .
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and
to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though
it contradict everything you said to-day.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Essays--Self-Reliance
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“Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man:
He's been on all sides that give places or pelf;
But consistency still wuz a part of his plan;
He's been true to one party, and that is, himself;--
So John P.
Robinson, he
Sez he shall vote for Gineral C.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: The Biglow Papers (series I, no. 3)
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“You are harping on the same string.
[Lat., Cantilenam candem canis.]”
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) Quotes Source: Phormio (III, 2, 10)
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“Tush! Tush! my lassie, such thoughts resigne,
Comparisons are cruele:
Fine pictures suit in frames as fine,
Consistencie's a jewell.
For thee and me coarse cloathes are best,
Rude folks in homelye raiment drest,
Wife Joan and goodman Robin.”
Unknown Quotes Source: Jolly Robyn-Roughhead, fake ballad appeared in American Newspaper
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“Tush! Tush! my lassie, such thoughts resigne,
Comparisons are cruele:
Fine pictures suit in frames as fine,
Consistencie's a jewell.
For thee and me coarse cloathes are best,
Rude folks in homelye raiment drest,
Wife Joan and goodman Robin.”
Unknown Quotes Source: Jolly Robyn-Roughhead, fake ballad appeared in American Newspaper
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“Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.”
Joseph Joubert Quotes |
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“At all times it is better to have a method.”
Mark Caine Quotes |
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“Long-range planning works best in the short term.”
Doug Evelyn Quotes |
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“Some self-confronting questions: "Where do I want to be at any given time?" "How am I going to get there? "What do I have to do to get myself from where I am to where I want to be?"... "What's the first, small step I can take to get moving?".”
George A. Ford Quotes |
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“Everything someone does on a daily basis should be traceable back to an annual or quarterly plan.”
Richard E. Griggs Quotes |
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“In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.”
Hillel J. Einhorn Quotes |
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“My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.”
Dennis Conner Quotes |
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“Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.”
Ben Bayol Quotes |
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“Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.”
Robert Collier Quotes |
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“It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.”
Jib Fowles Quotes |
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“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.”
Bernard Berenson Quotes |
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“A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective.”
John Argenti Quotes |
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“Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.”
Bernard M. Baruch Quotes |
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“Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.”
Frances Cornford Quotes |
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“It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.”
Graeme Edwards Quotes |
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“If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.”
Steven Gilbert Quotes |
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