Quotes About Discipline

I'm always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn't stop.

My parents split up when I was nine years old, and I started taking karate lessons at that point. I was very dedicated to my karate, and I looked up to my karate instructor kind of like a second father.

Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I started taking dance lessons on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and then I was in acting classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and I was also modeling on Saturdays. And that was my childhood.

If I keep taking my good swings, swing at the right pitches, good things will happen.

It's about getting in position and taking a swing. I don't care if you're taking steroids or not; if you don't do those two things, it's not going to matter anyway.

Bobby Lashley is on the road every week, he's in the gym everyday. Sometimes I literally argue with Bobby about taking time off, I say dude, you need recovery and Bobby says 'I do active recovery.'

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

Professional creativity requires more than inspiration, talent, and discipline - it requires an endurance that few are aware of and even fewer have.

My talent lies in my hard work.

You can have all the talent in the world, but if you don't bring it every night then nothing matters.

Without work, talent is lost.

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation.

Football is everything, mind, heart, talent.

Man, you can have all of the talent in the world, but the hard work overrules that.

Talent alone is never enough.

I am blessed with a reasonable athletic talent and was an athlete in school.

There are other players who were more talented, but there is no one who could out-prepare me.

When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.

A talented child will have a schedule that is horrendous. You get up and practice, go to school, practice some more, eat dinner, and then you have homework.

I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm disciplined, that I work my butt off, and that I make myself write as much as I can. Writer's block is a luxury I can't afford. I'm a professional writer, which means that I put my butt in the chair each day, and I write. Simple as that.

Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.

Talk is cheap, but when you go out there and prove it - you're the first one to show up for practice, and you're the last to leave - that's how you lead by example.

I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes.

I talked to friends who are actors and who do Shakespeare loads, and they all said 'learn it so that your family wants to clobber you, they're so bored.' You can never relax, that's the problem, because when you do, a bit of Shakespeare comes up to bite your cheeky behind. It just does, if you're not really focused on it.