Quotes About Discipline

Major Rutledge of the Buffs, Eton and Sandhurst as to intonation, millimetrically tooth-brushed as to moustache, Savile Row as to the quite dazzling sartorial perfection of his khaki drill, was so magnificently out of place in the wild beauty of the rocky, tree-lined bluffs of that winding creek that his presence there seemed inevitable.

Do you have children?" "Yes," I say. "Do they make their own beds?" "Well, sometimes," I reply. "You should encourage them to make their own beds," she says. "It's good training for life.

The Ancients subjected themselves to a fierce discipline of detachment from public opinion. Although they inevitably had to try to influence political life in their favor, they never seriously thought of themselves as founders or lawgivers. The mixture of unwise power and powerless wisdom, in the ancients view, would always end up with power strengthened and wisdom compromised. He who flirts with power, Socrates said, will be compelled to lie with it.

Paul's approach was positively lackadaisical when compared to a performer like James Brown, who was known to impose fines on his players for wrong notes or deviations from the arrangements. But this was alien to the freewheeling rock band aesthetic that Paul thought he wanted when he formed Wings. In

rules exist for a reason. Rules exist because when people don't follow them, people get hurt.

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

We are students of a twelve-year-old ninja. And we have a lot to learn.

If Kat had stayed at Colgan long enough, a teacher might have eventually told her what her family has been saying for generations. It's okay to break the rules, but only sometimes, and only if you know them very,very well.

The next day is a blur of dress fittings and dance lessons and trips to various salons with Ms. Chancellor. Some of her instruments of torture are hot. Some are cold. Some are hard and some are soft. All are dangerous, I decide. If the army knew about curling irons, basic training might look very, very different.

I spend around two and half hours on the track every day running and another 2 hours in the weight room lifting weights with my strength coach.

Equestrian art, perhaps more than any other, is closely related to the wisdom of life.

Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.

Classicism never commits any errors of taste.

Preparare brava gente a incontrarmi! Una disciplina che si chiamerebbe "Arte di affrontare i geni"! Che orrore!

L'ebbrezza non si improvvisa. Rientra nel campo dell'arte, che esige talento e cura. Bere a caso non porta da nessuna parte. Se la prima sbornia il più delle volte ha del miracoloso, dipende unicamente dalla nota fortuna del principiante: situazione che, per definizione, non si ripeterà.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

I had trained myself to show no weakness.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.

I have to avoid sweet food because it's my weakness, and it's really hard. What you eat will definitely affect your skin, so I really try to stay away from sweets.

I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They're my weakness.

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll sneak into the refrigerator at night and take two or three bites and put it back. Butter pecan. Only two or three bites, but it shows.

I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.

If you know cookies are your weakness, don't even bring them in the house because, like me, you will eat them.