Quotes About Discipline

Practice, practice, practice.

When you're a Catholic kid, the nuns teach you that when something is annoying you, you "offer it up", as a sacrificial gift.

Much to be preferred to boxing are fencing and revolver-practice, judo and study of poisons.

Floggings will continue until apathy improves! (Apathy-improves?) How is one to be, more, apathetic!!

I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn't get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet.

Be Prepared in Mind by having disciplined yourself to be obedient to every order, and also by having thought out beforehand any accident or situation that might occur, so that you know the right thing to do at the right moment, and are willing to do it. Be Prepared in Body by making yourself strong and active and able to do the right thing at the right moment, and do it.

Ukažte mi nedbale krojovaný oddíl a já "vypátrám", že ani jeho v?dce nemá kroj v po?ádku. Myslete na to, až se budete do kroje oblékat! Dáváte svým chlapc?m p?íklad a pokud budete mít kroj p?kn? upravený, od- razí se to i na vašich skautech.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Some days I am on the road. Some days I am reading, and some days I am copying quotes. Some days I am writing letters, and some days I am writing chapters. There are no days when I am not working on the craft. There are no days when I am not a writer

I neither could nor would rule my King. But there's a little. . . little, area... where I must rule myself.

Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.

A watched child never learns.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.

A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.

Man is the only trained animal who expects his reward before he does his trick.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.

Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.

The true professional knows that delivering function at the expense of structure is a fool's errand. It is the structure of your code that allows it to be flexible. If you compromise the structure, you compromise the future.

Writing clean code is what you must do in order to call yourself a professional. There is no reasonable excuse for doing anything less than your best.

Whatever else a TODO might be, it is not an excuse to leave bad code in the system.