Discipline Quotes

• Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • May
  • Kind
  • Littles

• Discipline, focus, clarity of vision, listening more than you speak, all these kinds of things enabled me to absorb all that Richard Avedon had to teach when I was an employee of his. It wasn’t an internship, I was hired.

  

  Jonathan Mannion
  • Focus
  • Vision
  • Discipline

• Do you have agendas for your children that are more important than the children themselves? Lost in the shuffle of uniforms, practices, games, recitals, and performances can be the creative and joyful soul of your child. Watch and listen carefully. Do they have time to daydream? From their dreams will emerge the practices and activities that will make self-discipline as natural as breathing.

  

  William Martin
  • Important
  • Children
  • Performances

• I think people are tired of religion and how it divides and damages people. You can name it whatever you want, Islam or Christianity, but if you have a system in which God is distant and angry all the time, and you're trying to please him through the right disciplines, it isn't going to work for everyone.

  

  William P. Young
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Tired

• To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

  

  George Eliot
  • Play
  • Woman
  • Heroism

• Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Good
  • Education
  • Question

• There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work.

  

  Robert De Niro
  • Work
  • Discipline
  • Anarchy

• I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

  

  Josh Lucas
  • Power
  • Discipline
  • Challenged

• When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.

  

  Blixa Bargeld
  • Music
  • Discipline
  • Text

• Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the utopian search for universal forms that marked the birth of design as a discourse and a discipline nearly a century earlier.

  

  Ellen Lupton
  • Community
  • Design
  • Search

• Discipline is the quality that carries over from gymnastics to acting.

  

  Mitch Gaylord
  • Quality
  • Acting
  • Gymnastics

• There are many graphic artists who have interpreted The Ancient One as a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, we're kind of shifting that a bit. We're trying not to be fixed, we're trying not to be fixed to any one thing, any one gender, any one spiritual discipline, and any one race even; we're just trying to wing it beyond that. So it's a new gesture really, just another interpretation.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Artist
  • Spiritual
  • Buddhist

• Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

  

  Gary W. Keller
  • Success
  • Discipline
  • Race

• Discipline is an index to doctrine.

  

  Tertullian
  • Discipline
  • Doctrine
  • Index

• Life is a series of problems, almost all of which can be cured by discipline.

  

  Noel John Whittaker
  • Life
  • Discipline
  • Problems

• With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Discipline
  • Belief

• I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Sometimes
  • Listening
  • Parent

• Ultimately, any type of discipline is flawed because it keeps the person who is being disciplined inept. As long as the experience is happening to you, while it is imposed on you, it is not your dream. When discipline is administered externally, the participant is dependent on the administrator of the discipline. When discipline is administered internally, the athlete becomes a victim of the structure of the discipline. Either way, only the discipline, not the dream, is being pursued.

  

  Cecile Reynaud
  • Long
  • Dream
  • Persons

• ...I think there's only one thing that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline and cooperation.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Teaching

• The discipline that makes an effective leader begins in the home.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Home
  • Discipline
  • Leader

• Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

  

  Tom Kite
  • Discipline
  • Interested
  • Concentration

• It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

  

  John Howard
  • Discipline

• The bears, over the years, have developed a primitive but heartfelt Buddhist discipline. Beneath the cinnamon trees they practice the repetition of the Growling Sutra.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Practice
  • Bears
  • Developed

• One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.

  

  Siobhan Davies
  • Discipline
  • Sense
  • Dancers

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