Discipline Quotations | Page 6

Enduring to the end is a process filling every minute of our life, every hour, every day, from sunrise to sunrise. It is accomplished through personal discipline following the commandments of God.

No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.

Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time leading yourself-your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers. If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

The value of work, and of always learning something new, and what it takes to achieve excellence. I really believe in those things that you have to dedicate yourself and spend time, that excellence is elusive. It's a little maddening, to try to have that level of discipline in your life, and I don't succeed all the time. But I do try.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

Discipline is what you use when you don't want to do something, when you have to force yourself.

It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

We have little choice but to place a certain level of trust in scientists - even when it comes to the model-driven speculative discipline of climate change. And, need it be said, most scientists take great care in being honest, principled and precise.

We definitely addressed that loud and clear between the first and second periods. We could continue to play that way and it was going to be a long night. Or we could show discipline and play as a team. Disciplined teams are unselfish.

The only discipline that last is self discipline.

We are investigating the situation. We'll make an announcement when it's complete and levy additional discipline if warranted." ()

We promised a strong bottom-line performance this year, and we are going to deliver, ... We have offset some tightening in the revenue environment with tough cost discipline, and that will not be a one-time event.

The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo.

The penalties are always on the same people. It's a lack of discipline. At some point you have to play with pride and play for yourself. I can't put faith in their hearts or courage in their minds.

The overall foundation of the program is getting better, ... When he got here, most of the players were Hughes' players. He had to fight against the team. Now, he's got most of his guys. The attitude is better, you see the recruiting getting better, you see the facilities getting better, and the discipline is better.

The overarching point of the president's economic strategy going forward in the 1999 budget is clear: under no circumstances should we take any steps that will undo the fiscal discipline that we have worked so hard to achieve and has been so central to our strong economy of the last five years.

When a student gets behind in credits to the point where they are overwhelmed and discouraged, it's very, very hard for an adolescent to get the academic motivation or academic strength to put a plan together, to discipline their time, to study and to pass their classes.

The defense has really picked it up lately. Our discipline is better. We're not taking stupid penalties. We're heading in the right direction.

The debt proves that the more than doubling of staff expenses was not affordable and still isn't, ... The supervisors need to discipline themselves to consider long-term decisions.

We started well, but we had some personal issues. We had to discipline a couple guys. A potential starter, Bo Taylor, was released from the team. Bernard Lowndes got hurt.

When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.

My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.

The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.

Self-respect is the root of discipline

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs.

What it boils down to is the student's discipline and their right to privacy. Therefore if your child is involved in an incident on the bus, the camera is going to have other children on the tape and their rights would be violated if you as a parent came to view your child and everyone else was visible.

Discipline is ... life-inhibiting, is at the very least curtailment of vital activity insofar as the latter cannot develop as it wishes but is confined within specific limits and subjected to specific rules.

We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

Dreams are large possessions ... they are an expansion of life, an enlightenment, and a discipline. I thank God for my dream life; my daily life would be far poorer, if it wanted the second sight of dreams.

All of us, from time to time, need a plunge into freedom and novelty, after which routine and discipline will seem delightful by contrast.

All freedom comes from discipline.

I believe that discipline and self-love are the total secrets to freedom.

The exemplary focus, discipline and execution that was so prevalent during (Bush's) first term is sorely lacking.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

I'm kind of a disciplined person but I don't take anything too seriously. And I think a lot of that had to do with the raising my parents gave me and my sister - Veronica Cartwright, who's an actress in her own right.

All the great temptations appear first in the region of the mind and can be fought and conquered there. We have been given the power to close the door of the mind. We can lose this power through disuse or increase it by use, by the daily discipline of the inner man in things which seem small and by reliance upon the word of the Spirit of truth. It is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is as though He said, 'Learn to live in your will, not in your feelings.'

Just because I like sushi, doesn't mean I can make sushi. I've come to well understand how many years just to get sushi rice correct. It's a discipline that takes years and years and years. So, I leave that to the experts.

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

If surrealism ever comes to adopt a particular line of moral conduct, it has only to accept the discipline that Picasso has accepted and will continue to accept.

Talent is cheap. What really matters is discipline.

The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.

We don't drift into good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.

Finish. The difference between being a writer and being a person of talent is the discipline it takes to apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and finish. Don't talk about doing it. Do it. Finish.

Well I think everything up to this point that I've been exposed to in my life has had an influence on me in some way, shape, or form even if I'm not conscious of it. So I definitely think that my studies in wu-shu, kung-fu, karate, kenpo, taikwando, all of that stuff certainly has an affect. I don't think I follow any discipline traditionally.

When I was very young, one of my favourite books was Captain's Courageous and I suppose one of the reasons I loved it, it was a life I knew I should have had, learning all the different bits of the ship and learning to catch fish and rig sails and to -all the things that I never learned and I never learned the discipline, but I hungered after it.

Film is very much about capturing the essence of things - if you feel it, and you've got the right person shooting it, it'll come across. Theater's a different animal; it's physically different and requires a different discipline. In the theater, you're mining the same material, constantly honing the same thing, executing it and keeping it alive and fresh.

The theater's a live thing, and film is, to some extent, a discipline where you're putting everything together and trying to execute something exactly. You do it away from people and then you present it at the end.

If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish to display timidity in order to entrap the enemy, you must have extreme courage; if you wish to parade your weakness in order to make the enemy over-confident, you must have exceeding strength.

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

I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.

I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.

I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

I had just come off doing a lot of commercials when I did Go, so a part of the fast pace and efficiency comes from the discipline I had to learn from telling stories in 25-second increments, and that type of discipline is insane.

The key to willpower is "want-power". If U want something strongly enough, U will find the discipline necessary to do it.

Music was my ultimate ambition but I liked all of it. I wanted to discipline myself in dance and acting too and I'd done all three since I was 9-years-old. I could sing, but I didn't become a great singer.

I was starstruck by Madonna. She's one of the few remaining superstars. I'm so impressed by her level of discipline towards her career. We did have a little chat, and she wasn't remotely intimidating, just lovely and open.

The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

How competitive can you be without losing your discipline?

Discipline and demand without being demeaning.

Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

To be great at whatever it is that you do, it's going to take some discipline to separate yourself from the average.

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.

The key to success is having some discipline, .. You don't have to be rocket scientist.

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less-filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt.

Psychology and acting are very closely linked. It's just about studying people and how they work. It can be an incredible discipline and exercise.

If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to see if you can uncover more anomalies. By looking at the phenomena of failure from the perspective of sales, marketing, finance, general management, and the equity markets, I was able to see things that Rebecca [Henderson] hadn't.

We have consistently called upon the Maoists to abandon the path of violence and terror, accept the discipline of multiparty democracy, and work for a political settlement that contributes to the political stability and economic prosperity of Nepal.

whose work has made a significant contribution to the discipline of the short story as an art form.

While restoring a sense of fiscal discipline to Congress is a top priority, infrastructure spending is an important and necessary task of government. Our nation's long-term debt requires us to prioritize and economize with every tax dollar.

We didn't play great the first period, but we didn't play too bad. I think they (Skidmore) played really well. They skated hard and their goalie played really well. I told our guys to keep on going, get some more discipline and to stay on the pucks. And we did. We beat them to a lot of loose pucks in the corner. We had some good jumps. Once we got the first goal it kind of opened things up. We got a lot of momentum off that.

We do have depth. We need team chemistry and discipline and tonight it went in. I attribute that to chemistry.

This represents a significant saving of public funds and we will strive to bring the same discipline to the financing of the games,

The reason we started the program was because we found out there were kids going home over the weekend without food to eat. They come back Monday morning hungry and not ready to learn, sleeping on their desks and having some discipline problems. We want to make sure people do not have to make choices of food or utilities, or food or medical bills.

We're trying to establish the little discipline things that will turn a team around. I don't care if we're 0-9 or 9-0, they won't get away with it.

We thought, hopefully, we could out discipline them, but they were still able to fly by us a lot on penetration. We were able to keep them out of range early on and thought that would frustrate them, but when they wanted to get to the basket they could. There wasn't a lot we could do to stop it.

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

It would be of course a low voltage spiritual life in which prayer was chiefly undertaken as a discipline, rather than as a way of co-labouring with God to accomplish good things and advancing his Kingdom purposes.

Jazz is about freedom within discipline.

I also try to discipline myself when I get into a situation ... and I'm trying to think of an answer, instead of being verbose, which is a tendency that I have, to be concise. Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

I've never tried to work chronologically. I don't think I have the discipline to do that.