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Discipline Quotes
"Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose."
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"Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly."
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"I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline."
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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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"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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"There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline."
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"The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven."
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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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"My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit."
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"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."
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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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"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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"What you practice too often, you use without thinking."
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"It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon."
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"My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline."
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"However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment."
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"When you are writing, you must treat it as the most important thing in the world, even when you know it is not. This helps you take the job seriously and do your best on everything you write."
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"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
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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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"I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do."
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"Your habits guide and sculpt your path. The same process that builds habits can break habits."
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"This marched was planned to be non violent and non confrontational, and gladly it stayed that way. What really impressed me was the self discipline of the Black Block."
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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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"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?"
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"In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves."
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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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"You must work for grace and favor to work for you."
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"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."
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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's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it."
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"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."
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"Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion."
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"I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom."
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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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"It could be my British need for discipline that makes me admire the American appetite for freedom and passion."
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"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."
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"Discipline? I don't know the meaning of the word."
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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 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."
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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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"Error is discipline through which we advance."
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"I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to."
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"Prof. Gerd Gleixner said " Lailah recommend that you work every morning on the dissertation in order to meet the deadline. There are only 4 weeks ."
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"Be on time! If you have a 15-minute appointment-keep it at fifteen minutes unless there is mutual agreement to continue."
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"We went about our usual routines - combat practice, volleyball practice, archery practice, strawberry-picking practice (don't ask), lava-wall-climbing practice ... You'll find we practice a lot here."
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"The journey of life demands diligence; walk in diligence in your entire life endeavors, and don't let your energy just go anywhere at all. Price yourself well! Price your energy well! Price your attention well! Price your time well! Prioritize your moments well! Be humble enough to understand the meaning of life and don't let excessive pride be your lens. Be assertive enough to know what to kowtow to and what never to give your time, attention, energy and emotions to. You were born great; be great!"
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"Appreciate and value your time because this is the key to success."
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