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Discipline Quotes
"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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"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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"Great men have great discipline."
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"It's our version of a black hole. Just like amply compact mass can distort space and time to cause a black hole, a sufficiently dense breach of discipline in our office causes a black hole that sucks the offender away for eternity, never to spit back!"
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"Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers."
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"Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested."
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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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"If I want to catch the damn worm I get outta bed."
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"One does not go to Moscow to get fat."
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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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"Don't join the queue of ignorant people who do not know that their time flies away into vanity daily. Don't be a part of the lazy lot who cannot discipline themselves in solitude to convert their time into products or added value."
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"If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it."
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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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"Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think."
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"One doesn't become a soldier in a week - it takes training, study and discipline. There is no question that the finest Army in the world is found in the United States."
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"Why would God provide heaven on earth when he's planned the real thing for you in eternity?"
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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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"Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams."
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"Repetition is the mother of character and skill."
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"What you practice too often, you use without thinking."
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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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"Do not allow yourself to act according to the flesh."
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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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"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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"I found myself when I least expected you - at the same old rocking chair in the room with the same flavor of tea. The only difference was the tea had turned cold, just as life had. And I found myself with an option. I could abandon this tea anytime and make a fresh one. You see?"
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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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"You are worthy. Don't be lazy."
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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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"We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future."
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"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
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"Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing."
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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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"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
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"You and your sister will be going with us this day, and that is not up for discussion.' He moved closer. 'Nor will it be an argument.' He stepped even closer and leaned his head slightly downward, his lips near her face. 'If you have a problem with that, little girl,' he commented at her display of stubbornness, 'then I will be more than happy to have Darius put you over his shoulder and carry you out of here. Either way, you will do as you are told, and behave yourself."
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"Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper."
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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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"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 only French word I know is oui, which means 'yes, and only recently did I learn it's spelled o-u-i and not w-e-e."
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"It takes discipline to turn illusion into reality."
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"Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine."
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"Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly."
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"Training of parts leads to training of the whole."
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"I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it."
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"Don't try to avoid criticism. If you do nothing, you will be nothing. If you do only the parts you really love, you will also be nothing. It takes what it takes. It takes all of it. Own it, accept it, embrace it and do it. Want all of what you want!"
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"Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness."
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"In the first place, his startling likeness to Catherine, connected him fearfully with her. That, however, which you may suppose the most potent to arrest my imagination, is actually the least " for what is not connected with her to me? and what does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped on the flags! In every cloud, in every tree " filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women " my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!"
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"The world's biggest tree, the redwood tree was once a little nut that just kept growing regardless of weather."
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"Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast."
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"It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds."
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