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Discipline Quotes
"Your consistency says a lot about your commitment."
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"Do not allow yourself to act according to the flesh."
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"I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even."
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"I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline."
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"I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble."
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"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'."
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"We have to try to control what we can or else we cannot judge progress."
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"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."
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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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"Your habits guide and sculpt your path. The same process that builds habits can break habits."
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"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."
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"I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them."
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"Excessive talking about our plans and dreams lessens our energy to do what is needed to achieve them."
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"Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, ifhe is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast."
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"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."
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"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
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"Punctuality has been called a "homely, but solid virtue. Although it is not fancy, it is a strong reflection of a person's character."
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"I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests."
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"Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell."
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"For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline."
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"Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways."
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"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."
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"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."
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"I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management."
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"I always was an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes."
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"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline."
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"The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own."
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"One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline."
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"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."
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"I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline."
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"It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion."
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"I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold."
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"Excuses are a promise of repetition."
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"7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated."
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"If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed."
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"Discipline is a bridge built through everyday action."
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"Perfect retention. I don't think I could do that-I've never disciplined myself to do it.I suppose a lot of it is a question of discipline. Which improvisation is not."
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"Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested."
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"Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams."
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"The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven."
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"Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities."
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"Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline."
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"Dieting was cruel; it was an abuse of human rights. Yes, that's what it was, and she should not allow herself to be manipulated in this way. She stopped herself. Thinking like that was nothing more than coming up with excuses for breaking the diet. Mma Ramotswe was made of sterner stuff than that, and so she persisted."
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"The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength."
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"You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'"
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"I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline."
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"I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom."
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