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Discipline Quotes
"I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge."
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"The surest test of discipline is its absence."
96
"Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain."
87
"I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom."
69
"They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline."
64
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
63
"When you commit to doing something every day it is hard. It seems impossible and you want to quit but if you just hang in there you will see it gets easier. Every day you get a little stronger. Every day you try a little harder. There will be times when you want to quit. Your mind will tell you to stop. You need to persist. You need to continue trying every single day. And one day you will notice how easy it has become to do something that seemed so hard in the beginning."
61
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
56
"For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline."
55
"It's bad enough barging into Guild property, but we'll get into really serious trouble if we shoot anyone. Lord Vetinari won't stop at sarcasm. He might use' - Colon swallowed - 'irony."
53
"Man will not merely endure; he will prevail."
53
"Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents."
51
"I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa."
51
"It's like a muscle - if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don't keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it."
50
"Each day you wake up, work as if the manifestation of your dream solely depends on that day."
50
"Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man."
50
"Meddling is the evil, not indifference."
50
"Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty."
50
"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."
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"Error is discipline through which we advance."
49
"My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline."
48
"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."
48
"There's such a thing as theater discipline. One player doesn't appropriate another's inventions."
48
"There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline."
47
"I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline."
47
"Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word."
47
"In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?"
47
"Daily discipline is the door to full freedom, and the discipline to count to one thousand gave way to the freedom of wonder and I can't imagine not staying awake to God in the moment, the joy in the now."
46
"I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy."
46
"Keep cool. Anger is not an argument."
46
"It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it."
45
"We have to try to control what we can or else we cannot judge progress."
45
"I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline."
45
"Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention."
44
"In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
44
"If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it."
43
"There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took."
43
"Motivated authors sacrifice TV time, sleep, hobbies, and even family time."
43
"A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."
43
"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
43
"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."
42
"Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose."
41
"Discipline does not mean suppression and control nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'."
41
"I talked about 12 to 18 months, and that's about reaffirming our foundation for sustained growth: getting the discipline back, getting the basics right, getting the customer focus back... so by the end of next year, I hope most of that's in place."
41
"The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors."
41
"I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do."
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"Are you placed where others are sitting down idly, doing nothing? Rise to the work with all your powers; and when the sweat stands upon your brow, and you are tempted to loiter, cry, "No, I cannot stop, for I am Christ's. If I were not purchased by blood, I might be like Issachar, crouching between two burdens; but I am Christ's, and cannot loiter."
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