Quotes About Discipline

To make it into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.

To make [reading] into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it. Even the finest books deserve to be thrown aside.

To make [reading] into a discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it.

the disciplined and sedated authority of the scientist entrusted with the safe management of unfeasible rage

What an achievement a moment of calm now is, what a minor miracle the ability to fall asleep or to talk undistracted with a friend – and what monastic discipline would be required to make us turn away from the maelstrom of news and listen for a day to nothing but the rain and our own thoughts.

Shut up this minute, you silly little creatures...

The intractability of the software-construction process—particularly the high cost of programming and the low quality of interaction—is simply not a technical problem. It is the result of business practices imposed on a discipline—software programming—for which they are obsolete.

Hux refused to pace, regarding it as a waste of energy.

By the grace of your training, I will not be seduced.

One could teach knowledge. One could teach skills. One could even, she knew, teach something of the Force. But patience had to be learned alone.

He was, in military life, a sergeant. Casson had already guessed that by the time he got around to mentioning it. A sergeant: good at getting things done. By the book so long as it worked. By being crooked if that's what it took.

for heaven's sake, don't turn reading into the intellectual equivalent of eating organic greens, or (shifting the metaphor slightly) some fearfully disciplined appointment with an elliptical trainer of the mind in which you count words or pages the way some people fix their attention on the "calories burned" readout

Trata a la escritura como un dios y sírvele de manera fiel.

buddy. You'd better get back to class." "School's over." "Oh," she said. "Don't you usually have detention, or something?" He sagged. "Yeah," he said, and trudged off.

Forget motivation; just get used to doing things straight away.

Unlike Greek narratives, where achievement is celebrated, and biblical narratives, where submission and discipline are celebrated, in Indic thought understanding is celebrated.

Don't indulge your senses with bhoga, yoke your emotions with yoga.

establish a world where the head is balanced with the heart, wealth with wisdom, and discipline with compassion. Come,

People are not born with hearts of stone; there's a reason they harden. Sometimes they make poor choices, and sometimes they lack discipline. As a result of these choices, people carry around blame or anger with themselves, which looks like harshness on the outside. Sometimes we simply don't know any better.

Goddamn yer blood, you . . . / Lewrie wished to shout aloud; can't I relieve him for drunkeness, at least? He 71 bugger this up, certain! Drunk as Davy's Sow, or from spite for gettin' some o' his Molly Boys knackered! For better or worse, though, unfortunately, he was stuck with him. Oh, but if you turn this into a shambles, Jemmy, I'll see ye stomped on like a worm!

'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

The battle of the big belly is fought using the weapons of dietary changes, exercise, and most importantly, discipline.

Think of many things. Do one. — Portuguese saying

When you wake up in the morning, you choose between lying in bed another ten minutes and getting to work on time.