Personal power involves producing success through modeling what works and taking consistent action towards your goals. At the same time, you have to internalize behavioral and belief changes in order to take the necessary action to produce the results. It's been said that successful people do what others won't, and that if you believe you can or you believe you can't, you're right. Both of those statements are true.
The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.
When you start taking consistent action, you will see results.
. . . It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
I've been consistent in patches this season.
I want to be the best, it's not about the ranking, it's about being consistent.
J. P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has amazing insights which other people missed out on. Even with his descriptions of Northern Ireland.
I wanted to be consistent with my exercise, so I committed to working out for 30 days in a row, no matter what.
I love creating individual short stories within chapters, but I want to get better at building consistent narratives from start to finish.
I myself would go for nonviolence if it was consistent, if everybody was going to be nonviolent all the time. I'd say, okay, let's get with it, we'll all be nonviolent. But I don't go along with any kind of nonviolence unless everybody's going to be nonviolent. If they make the Ku Klux Klan nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. If they make the White Citizens Council nonviolent, I'll be nonviolent. But as long as you've got somebody else not being nonviolent, I don't want anybody coming to me talking any nonviolent talk.
Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
Madness is consistent; which is more than can be said for poor reason. Whatever may be the ruling passion at the time continues equally so throughout the whole delirium, though it should last for life. Madmen are always constant in love; which no man in his senses ever was. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy; but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.
I think I've been very consistent in my values.
I'm always amazed at how consistent people find me and my behavior, when in fact I do feel different all the time.
The most difficult thing in baseball is to be consistent. You can have one good year, but if the next is bad you're defrauding everyone.
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.
I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me. " "Yet you would have shot him. " I shrugged. "I never said I was consistent, just serious.
The fact is the statements are perfectly consistent, but more importantly, I don't have all the facts.
I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.