Up: [[Experiencing Time]] Created: 2024-09-24 Updated: 2026-01-24 > [!Orbit] Aldous Huxley > Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. > [!Orbit] Oscar Wilde > Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. > [!Orbit] Ralph Waldo Emerson > A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. > [!Orbit] Malcolm Gladwell > Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues… I’m someone who changes his mind all the time. > [!Orbit] Bruce Springsteen > Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time. > [!Orbit] Jerry Saltz > The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years. > [!Orbit] George Packer > It seems in America you are stuck with the position you adopted, even when events change, in order to claim absolute consistency. That can’t be good. > [!orbit] Simon Sinek > Consistency beats intensity. > [!Orbit] Mark Rothko > The most important tool the artist fashions through constant practice is faith in his ability to produce miracles when they are needed. > [!Orbit] Beverly Pepper > I go to my studio every day. Some days the work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the non-productive ones. > [!Orbit] Cathy Wild in *Wild Ideas: Creativity from the Inside Out* > …consistency *regulates* energy. The structure of routine provides a stable foundation, steadying us against the destabilizing effects of chaos and impulse. (p. 222)