William Feather Quotes

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

William Feather

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• Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Myself

• Let me start by saying I wish no country had the need for an army. But in Israel, serving is part of being an Israeli. You've got to give back to the state. You give two or three years, and it's not about you. You give your freedom away. You learn discipline and respect.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Country
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

  

  Ed Skrein
  • People
  • Sports
  • Confidence

• I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Acting
  • Times
  • Seriously

• We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Remember
  • Today
  • Science

• I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • School
  • Like
  • Discipline

• I think the rigors of a TV schedule are brutal and 'Six Feet Under' wasn't a network schedule. We did 13 shows, we didn't do 22. I don't know how people do that. I really don't. I mean the shows are shorter, but wow, it's quite a discipline.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • People
  • Discipline
  • Feet

• 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.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Know
  • Discipline
  • Talent

• I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Up
  • Discipline
  • New

• That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Discipline

• Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • Life
  • Home
  • Kids

• I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Week
  • Times
  • Thrift

• Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Discipline
  • Back

• One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Problems
  • Internet
  • Times

• I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Good
  • Discipline
  • Innovation

• Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Important
  • Kids

• Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Today
  • Discipline
  • Tomorrow

• For most governors, we find the United States Senate or the United States Congress very frustrating at the slow pace in which they act. There doesn't seem to be a lot of discipline and organization to what they do.

  

  Dave Heineman
  • Discipline
  • Organization

• I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Friends
  • Society
  • Community

• Give regularly. Stewardship is not a once-a-year consideration, but a week-to-week, month-to-month commitment requiring discipline and consistency.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Discipline
  • Consistency
  • Consideration

• In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

  

  Mark Twain
  • She

• If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

  

  William Feather
  • Discipline
  • Times
  • Competence