Quotes About Discipline

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.

I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements.

Kung Fu, like any art, is a practical affair, not just a question of gathering knowledge. In other words, one becomes proficient through hard, regular practice, not by reading about it.

the essence of kungfu training is improving skills and enhancing force (not merely learning elaborate techniques) — the process of which necessitates practising simple actions over and over again, many, many, many times.

than all the sandbags and dumb-bells put together.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

When you play, make sure you're honest enough to confront your own deficiencies. That's why practicing is a sign of morality in a musician. It means that you're willing to subject yourself to self-scrutiny of the highest order.

Moderation in all things healthful; total abstinence from all things harmful.

To quote a dictum of Simon, what a horse does under compulsion he does blindly, and his performance is no more beautiful than would be that of a ballet-dancer taught by whip and goad.

for as they who use no bodily exercises are awkward and unwieldy in the actions of the body, so they who exercise not their minds are incapable of the noble actions of the mind, and have not courage enough to undertake anything worthy of praise, nor command enough over themselves to abstain from things that are forbid.

When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Jika kau mengulangi berbagai latihan dengan susah payah dan mendapatkan manfaat disiplin dalam praktik serta latihan, tindakan akan ada dalam tubuh serta kakimu, bukan pikiranmu. Dengan menjaga jarak dari latihan, kau tidak akan melawannya, dan kau akan melakukan setiap teknik dengan bebas. Pada titik ini, kau tidak akan tahu di mana pikiranmu berada, dan tak ada iblis atau pun kekuatan suci yang mampu menemukannya.

Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

As integral as religion was to his sense of self, it was not until he reached West Point and combined his spiritual discipline with Blaik's military discipline that his coaching persona began to take its mature form. Everything he knew about organizing a team and preparing it to play its best, Lombardi said later, he learned at West Point. "It all came from Red Blaik.

There was no factional discipline in the drift towards Rudd. Individuals were making up their own minds. In some worlds, that's how politics works.

blind obedience and unquestioning discipline.

The pursuit of perfection required rigor and discipline.

being consistent and authentic are the keys to successful training.