Quotes About Discipline

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

When I went to Beijing, my goal was to do the best with every shot. The outcome was not important, the process was.

Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes.

I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.

When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.

If I play, I try to concentrate on producing my best.

Opera requires an enormous commitment. You must devote your whole life to producing that extraordinary sound.

No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and in which discipline and order have not been established.

I'm not the most powerful. I'm not the fastest. I don't have the best arm. I don't have any of that, but put it all together and do the little details well, and you're going to be a very productive player.

In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.

I'm used to being productive, ever since I was young.

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

As for my schedule, I tend to go to bed at the same time every night and get up at the same time every morning, and I try to be as productive as possible. Some days, I can devote to one specific thing. Other days, it's a catch-all day.

You can still have a very productive, crime-free life when you're growing up in show business.

Be productive, but be productive consistently.

Something I've always prided myself on is not only can you be highly productive, but can you be highly productive continuously.

In my 39 years in the military, I have learned that you are not a profession just because you say you are. You have to earn it and re-earn it and re-evaluate it from time to time.

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

Since I'm a professional, every day I try to become a better player.

I think that, like any kind of career, there are many different people involved in the ballet world.

I'm a totally different person in training.

Some guys like to eat two or three different times a day before the game. I eat once, and that's it.