Quotes About Discipline

Basta hojear las biografías o las autobiografías de grandes estudiosos para descubrir casi siempre el recuerdo del encuentro con un docente que, durante los estudios secundarios o superiores, fue decisivo para orientar la curiosidad hacia esta o aquella disciplina. Todos nosotros hemos podido experimentar hasta qué punto la inclinación hacia una materia especifica ha sido suscitada, con mucha frecuencia, por el carisma y la habilidad de un profesor.

He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.

And the rule I gave myself was that I had to invent at least one thing new every day and also read a book everyday. For many years now that has been my fixed rule.

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice. You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice. Forget talent. If you have it, fine. Use it. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter. As habit is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent.

Dad warned us all about water stations, trying to prepare us in case we ever went out and got caught far enough from home to be tempted to stop for water. His advice: "Don't do it. Suffer. Get your rear end home." Yeah.

I would never have been a good scientist—my attention span was too short for that.

Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.

Only a habit can subdue another habit.

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.

How easy for those who do not bulge To not overindulge!

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. ~ Ogden Nash

For conduct which to clearer minds seems merely sane, was in those days to be performed only by rare vision and self-mastery.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping you ass in the chair. (ASS + CHAIR = PAGES!)

In disciplining ourselves to practice Zen in movement, we never cease to become mu with all our might or count the frequency of our respiration at all times and in all places just as we do when we are in meditation. Therefore, it is our ideal to train ourselves to attain immovability in movement. As I have been saying, however, even professional Zen monks cannot always practice Zen in movement except those endowed with the greatest capacities.

mosquito pupils." I do not know the exact meaning of the term, but it seems to mean those people who practice their arts only during the season when mosquitoes are plentiful.

When all are seated, the jikijitsu claps the taku (wooden clappers) once, followed by the four successive rings of the small metal bell called inkin at measured intervals. This is the sign of shijo, which means the beginning of samadhi or zazen. In the ensuing period of quietness, the slightest movement of our bodies, even coughing, is forbidden.

Gedo Zen as religious discipline following teachings based on a perspective outside of Buddhism.

My teacher Bokuo Roshi, Abbot of Tenryu-ji at present, once said in reminiscence of his painful discipline in his bygone years, "The way to be liberated from suffering is to be quickly absorbed into it.

kufu means, as I have already explained, being without any suki (opening or flaw in terms of swordsmanship) or yudan (carelessness) and to become the thing itself.

Some of you may practice zazen all alone at home with this book of mine as a guide. If you do, you must be well prepared for suffering. If there is no suffering, your sitting will be futile and you will find it difficult to continue zazen.