Discipline Quotes
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Retaining culture takes effort and persistence and discipline. It's a commitment, not a flag. You can't just pull it out and wave it about when it's convenient.
Alexandra Fuller
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Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
Peter Benchley
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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
Rachel Carson
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And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.
Jim Cantalupo
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117: It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and, learning to be self-critical?
Alan Perlis
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Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things in life are those who are willing to discipline their lives, who maintain their health, their vitality, their efficiency through this process of rigorous disciplining of what they take into their bodies and what they do in life. It's a very important thing in terms of championship living.
Bob Richards
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My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.
Napoleon Hill
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When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.
Blair Underwood
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For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline.
Brandon Lee
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The Boss: The State’s your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies that by word or deed.
H. G. Wells
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I had discipline in other areas but certainly not in athletics.
Lucas Till
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...Competitive Skaters must be prepared for a lot of work, challenges, self-discipline, and motivation. The desire must be there, but more importantly, your love for the sport.
Oksana Baiul
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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self- sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
Betty Friedan
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Going from idea to production is a huge hurdle. It took me a while to overcome it. It's basically all about self discipline, right?
Gene Luen Yang
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It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.
Zig Ziglar
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Donors, like voters, increasingly expect candidates to exercise fiscal discipline.
Mark McKinnon
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Training and education is one and the same: that is, to train the mind through a discipline in order to awake the inner intelligence of the individuals.
Lobsang Tenzin
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It's not a public matter when you discipline your family.
Calvin Johnson
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I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment; and only so can we know peace.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline... too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with... something about yourself, your career, your spouse
Dale Dauten
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Writing is a discipline, and you have to stay at it. Inspiration will come.
Sam Barry
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I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I'm going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It's a kind of discipline.
Amy Ray
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Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.
Adam Davidson