Quotes About Discipline

A pure breed of steed is steered sheerly by the shadow of the lash, but even the spur cannot stir a mount of trash.

But Jordan's violin was especially deadly. It screeched like a frightened owl. Mr. Graisha glared at her, snapping his baton up and down, side to side, fighting to keep all twenty-three students playing in unison. It was a losing battle. He glanced up at the clock and then waved both arms as if he needed to stop a freight train.

First of all, Doctor, I don't quite know what you mean by 'democratic principles.' Are you referring to the appalling lack of discipline and self-control I've observed on this station? The exaltation of individual freedom above the welfare of the group? The fact that the 'first among equals' in democratic society seem to get preference and privilege?

People think of rugby players as being tough but it's another thing to stand in front of someone and get kicked, punched, taken down. In rugby you have two contact sessions a week and you play a game on the weekend.

In college wrestling we had to make weight every weekend, so it's not bad at all. I get it off easily.

I didn't want to be just a weekend warrior and go up and fly every now and then.

Growing up in high school, I wasn't hanging out with friends every day or on the weekends. Doing normal high school kid things was something I was willing to give up.

When I was little, my parents took away candy except on the weekends. So I'd rush out of my room at 5:00 A.M. on Saturday and sit in front of the TV, jamming my face with candy.

I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I like my husband, so I don't work at weekends.

I think once you get into the routine of race weekends, and there's more of a structure, it gets a bit easier.

I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.

My mum, who comes from Goa, wanted us to develop our minds when we were kids, so she used to turn the electricity off at weekends so we couldn't sit watching the telly.

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.

I literally work every day and weekends.

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.

I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.

I still run every other day. Longer at weekends. I probably do 35 miles a week.

When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski trip, I take my computer with me, get up at six, do my five pages, and then go skiing.

On a school day, I practice for two hours and more than half a day on weekends.

I tend to work quite a lot during the weekends. My weekend can often be about two hours on Sunday.

At training camp, you brainwash yourself into thinking every,day is the same, no weekends or holidays. It's all the same - a work day. You develop a mental state to just work hard and get ready for the fight.

People don't realize all the stuff I gave up growing up. I could have gone to parties and had fun at adventure parks with friends on weekends and things like that. But I went out and worked my butt off for eight hours playing golf.

I am not on tour any more, but I hear things, and there are stories that some players are not as dedicated as they should be and treating some of these PTC events in Europe as stag weekends rather than tournaments.