Discipline Quotations | Page 3

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

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.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.

I have a discipline that has served me very well in my career and in my personal life... and that's gotten stronger as I've gotten older. I've always felt if I don't just have a natural knack for it, I will just out-discipline the competition if I have to -- work harder than anybody else.

In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child break forth again when the struggle for existence - of the individual in society, of the society in the life of the state - begins. These passions are not transformed by the prevalent education of the day, but only repressed.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

I write in a journal occasionally. But it is not a daily discipline for me.

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.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn't divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Lucky enough, through the public school system, I had been able to have some music education, and that gave me something to focus on, and discipline - like a family to feel part of. There was a healthy family.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

I watched my parents. My dad worked nights, and I was aware of how much he was doing for us. My mom was a Tupperware lady and also worked at the school. I always felt that I couldn't let them down. And I had a natural discipline from early on. I was always training for something.

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

Language is too complex for a computer to understand. It's not going to be able to make sense of what people are saying en masse. We need a new type of discipline that puts together computer scientists and social scientists, who can add context to the situation.

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

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.

Take a different route to the coffee shop to see what you can see and hear. When we get in a routine, we can become zombie-like and shut down. It's about discipline. You have to push yourself.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.

It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.

I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

Nothing is a hobby - each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.'

I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

People ask me what's the most important function when you're starting an organization or setting up the kind of culture and values that are going to endure. The discipline I believe so strongly in is H.R., and its the last discipline that gets funded.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

I know there are actors we all want to beat up a little. I think it's important to do whatever it takes, and whatever it takes sometimes involves some physical or mental discipline. There's a lot at stake.

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.

As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so may a man be born with certain faculties within him, faculties belonging to the soul, which he can develop by training and by discipline.

Truthfully, I don't really think of myself as a photographer. I don't have all the disciplines and knowledge of a person who's spent their life devoted to photography.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes.

Science is a self-correcting discipline that can, in subsequent generations, show that previous ideas were not correct.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

I guess I need to apologize. I know better than that. I kind of lost discipline the way our team did in the game.

I was pleased with our patience and discipline on offense. Montpelier is quick and physical, but we held our own on the boards.

I was pleased with the way our team battled and didn't allow the first inning get away from us. The turning point of this game was responding to tie the score in the first inning. We showed good plate discipline and limited our strikeouts while forcing difficult situations on the McNary pitchers.

Never will you see your wrong, when you always see that youre right.

No agency has greater skill and experience in this difficult, complex, and utterly vital discipline of intelligence,

Nick and John are very good with the kids. They teach them well. There not just getting in there and swinging the swords around. Fencing instills a lot of discipline in them.

My guru had stern discipline, ... Gradually a fear complex grew in me.

My guys didn't come on time to get taped, so the five guys that were here started. It's a discipline thing.

Man derives all the joy and peace that he needs from within himself and not from sources outside himself. So the best spiritual discipline is, strengthen the inward vision.

One piece of advice... ... Can I use several words? Be prepared for how all-consuming parliamentary life can be but don't be daunted by it. With discipline and camaraderie with your caucus and getting on top of the processes of parliament and parliamentary life, you will be able to work out your work-life balance regarding this job. It is most worthwhile doing if you're a person that wishes to make a privileged contribution to your country and your electorate. It is worthwhile, but don't forget that for you, the person, to function to your peak ability in parliament in quite stressful situations, you must look after you, the person, from time to time and that requires emotional support. And physical nourishment for yourself is important.

One huge advantage is Brent Sutter. This team will have structure and discipline and will be purposeful in its play.

One big frustration that I have with the current state of our discipline is that I can't identify the people doing the best work.

One of the things I did when I took over is ask what we need to build a program around. To me it's discipline and the weight room. Those are the two big things I've focused on.

One of the things that happens when you win all the time is, when you lose in overtime and lose the next night, it feels like you haven't won in months. But it's unreasonable; you can't go through this league without losing. Our discipline was good tonight and our defense really managed the puck.

No one should doubt my resolve to maintain discipline in this service.

My experience is when moving online, they don't understand the detail and knowledge and discipline you must have across the entire spectrum of e-commerce. It is not a pretty sight the first couple of years. It's really a commitment. You have to have the patience and the dollars to wait it out.

No one wants to be an underachiever. We need to give better effort, we need to be more disciplined. That's one thing coach Meyer has definitely brought us, discipline. That's something we really lacked in years past. Guys weren't responsible for their actions, on and off the field.

Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them.

Now you worship His Form, you repeat His name; ignoring His orders. Without practicing the discipline laid down by Rama to purify the mind, all else is mere show, empty rituals.

Obviously, there were some discipline problems tonight. You can't take penalties against a power play this good. It's black and white.

I have been touching 140 km per hour regularly in the domestic circuit but I know I lack in discipline. I tend to get wayward and I am working hard on it. What is encouraging and a source of constant motivation for me is the fact that the current team management believes in giving chances to youngsters.

I don't know what it is, discipline I guess. We've got to figure it out, and we've got to fix it now.

I don't know what it is; I think Coach ( Urban ) Meyer has probably brought discipline when he came in. You're not seeing guys talking all about themselves.

Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.

Learning music is about teamwork and discipline, ... You can do it in a lot of ways, like sports and music. It's never too early to start that.

Last year, we had a team full of young guys that didn't understand discipline. That's why we were 2-14. It's no secret.

Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

We made a mistake. There was nothing she did that warranted any discipline.

There are many aspects of coaching that I don't claim to be an expert on, but certainly discipline is one of the criteria.

When you buy a load you tend to have the discipline to hold it longer.

We're looking at each element, each discipline of our operation to determine how this happened and why.

Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.

Missouri began the game with high pressure and it took us a moment to settle down. We were caught a little of guard in the beginning of the game. Missouri played with strong discipline as individuals and as a team, but it was still an evenly played game. Despite not having our best performance, we were always in the game and had several chances to pick up the victory.

Mr. Wells' statement that the discipline was delayed is pure fiction.

Mr. Wells' statement that the discipline was delayed is pure fiction. With respect to the larger issue of steroids, Mr. Wells is obviously unaware that commissioner Selig has proposed a tougher steroid policy for the industry and that such a policy can be imposed only through collective bargaining.

She has a great work ethic and will definitely be a force to be reckoned with for a long time with that discipline and motivation.

She really crushed that one. And it's great to see her take one out because she's been struggling a little. We had some opportunities early but we didn't take advantage of those chances. We need to work on being more discipline at the plate.