Bernard Berenson Quotes

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Bernard Berenson

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• The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Hands
  • Class
  • Ignorant

• We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • School
  • Father
  • Army

• Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Important
  • Political
  • Justice

• Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Changes

• The first cause of waste is probably even buried in our DNA. Human beings have a need for maintaining consistency of the apperceptive mass. What does that mean? What it means is, for every perception we have, it needs to tally with the one like it before, or we don't have continuity, and we become a little bit disoriented.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Perception
  • Consistency
  • DNA

• Consistency is very important when you're making films.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Important
  • You
  • Consistency

• Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Everyone wants new things all the time; shops require so much - there has to be consistency.

  

  Phoebe Philo
  • Time
  • Consistency

• I feel like there are a lot of positives in my swing. I'm really going to work around the rhythm of my swing, being able to keep my rhythm and being more consistent. Consistency is what I'm looking for, performance-wise.

  

  Lydia Ko
  • Work
  • Wise
  • Consistency

• Consistency for me is everything.

  

  Alexei Navalny
  • Consistency

• In terms of CBS, I think that the consistency for them, it feels like they have a really clear sense of who they are and what they want, and they're able to keep delivering very consistently on their brand, which is really terrific, and I think NBC has taken some really smart and interesting routes in the things that they've done.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Done
  • Interesting
  • Taken

• Movement is one of the most important things. My consistency, everything - there's a lot to improve. Coaches are never happy. But I'd like to keep improving, go deeper in the tournaments, and get as high in the rankings as possible.

  

  Dominic Thiem
  • Important
  • Happy
  • High

• For us as a firm, not only from a risk mitigation standpoint but also as a point of differentiation, it is incredibly important to get consistency and the very best individuals with the capabilities to do the very best job.

  

  Punit Renjen
  • Important
  • Job
  • Risk

• Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise and expedient under certain circumstances might be eminently unwise and impolitic under different circumstances. To persist in acting in the same way under circumstances essentially different would be folly and obstinacy, and not consistency.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Different
  • May
  • Wise

• Good acting is consistency of performance.

  

  Jim Dale
  • Good
  • Consistency

• In principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

  

  Jeremy Bentham
  • Practice
  • Consistency

• I need a consistency of my moods if there is to be any consistency in my style. I can't attempt to write always in the hollow flux of desperation and incipient terror.

  

  Jim Carroll
  • Style
  • Consistency

• Gregg is a valuable and important member of our organization. This is a first step in recognizing his contributions and maintaining consistency among our coaches.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Important
  • Organization
  • Consistency

• Radio Shack is continuously seeking new ways to ensure we are providing the American consumer with greater value.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • New
  • Ways
  • Radio Shack

• We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Black

• I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Language
  • Hard
  • Reader

• He who is really kind, can never be unhappy.

  

  Confucius
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Unhappy

• There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

  

  Richard Whately
  • Truth
  • Error

• Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Consistency
  • Ignorant
  • Requires