Quotes About Discipline

It is slothful not to compress your thoughts

he'll have to cut out all of his gambling associations. He'll have to tell the court who got this money and what was done with it. He'll have to quit acting the part of a spoiled kid with an indulgent sister, and learn to stand on his own two feet, and it may make a man of him.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

arms weren't flabby. He never used to yell at

I've always admired parents who discipline their children in hushed whispers: "Arthur, you are a naughty boy for turning on all the gas jets. Now I want you to drag your little sister out into the fresh air, give her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and apologize. Don't make Mama have to raise her voice." I

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.

Hunger is good discipline.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

That in some way he could work the fat off his soul the way a fighter went into the mountains to work and train in order to burn it out of his body

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea...

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them.

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.

That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.

For many things are not as they appear. Discipline must come from trust and confidence.

The professor at the boxing gymnasium wore mustaches and was very precise and jerky and went all to pieces if you started after him.

You have to emend yourself. A man who doesn't sleep cannot live.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea and the old man had always considered it so and respected it.

If I started to write elaborately, or like someone introducing or presenting something, I found that I could cut that scrollwork or ornament out and throw it away and start with the first true simple declarative sentence I had written. Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.

he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city

You oughtn't to ever do anything too long.