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"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."
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"Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work."
"If you can cope the pride when winning,then you can confront despair when lose."
"You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God."
"Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine."
"Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted."
"It's always been important for writers to be disciplined but now even more so. In addition to the traditional displacement activities like cleaning the fridge or eating cake writers are faced with a plethora of online possibilities (some of which may be professionally worthwhile as well as interesting and fun). As a writer it's important to learn how to focus so you can do both as and when you need to."
"Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone."
"Without work, time cannot be converted and it will waste away."
"Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy."
"Your habits guide and sculpt your path. The same process that builds habits can break habits."
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"The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people."
"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."
"A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice."
"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."
"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."
"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."
"A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog."
"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."
"A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses."
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