Quotes About Discipline

Hé Colin... Ik geloof dat je weer eens slordig met je zaad bent omgesprongen.

Always assume that a request for parental contact and comforting represents a need for a toddler struggling to develop attachment and meet that need on demand, day or night. Parents need to reframe their thoughts about getting up at night with a new toddler as a wonderful opportunity to build attachment rather than a dreaded chore. Do not leave an adopted toddler alone crying at night as often recommended by many parent discipline specialists.

Sometimes the best love is tough love.

Find a better excuse, or learn better behavior.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.

Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view.

A mother is never cocky or proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child has just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.

My Great Grandmother Morrison fixed a book-rest to her spinning wheel so that she could read while she was spinning, or so the story goes. And one Saturday evening she became so absorbed in her book that when she looked up she found that it was half-past midnight and she had spun for half an hour on the Sabbath Day. Back then, that counted as a major sin.

If one sat up as long as an hour past bedtime, except on Christmas and birthdays, one would be ill. Laurie, who had had this explained to him many times and accepted it as incontrovertible fact, inferred from it that after three hours one would probably die.

I enrolled him in karate," Alice said. "I went to different schools and found the one with the shortest lines. I knew if the classes were big and he had to wait for his turn too long, he'd get in trouble for turning somersaults in line. He loves it. I was worried he'd use it on the playground and get into more trouble, but the karate instructors teach the kids to be very disciplined. It's been great.

Plan your work, work your plan.

The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers. (quoted 2017-12-30 in the Toronto Daily Star)

Agatha Swanburne - "Do your best before lunch and do your best after lunch. During lunch, have a sandwich.

The essence of 5S is to follow what has been agreed on. It begins with discarding what we don't need in the gemba (seiri) and then arranging all the necessary items in the gemba in an orderly manner (seiton). Then a clean environment must be sustained so that we can readily identify abnormalities (seiso), and these three steps must be maintained on a continuous basis (shitsuke).

At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.

If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.

The discipline of action, then, is concerned with learning how to properly act in the world, both toward ourselves and toward others.

La disciplina del deseo (que también recibe el nombre de aceptación estoica) nos dice qué es y qué no es adecuado desear.

eat well, exercise daily, get plenty of sleep, and do well in school.

These are often referred to as the three Stoic disciplines: desire, action, and assent.

Over preparing for your competition is better than under-preparing.

There we did begin, Cloisterd in the waterfall, Our summer discipline.

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

unless a runner is systematically held back, he will more often than not run too hard on easy days and unwittingly sabotage his training plan.