Quotes About Discipline

Every little girl 'did her knitting stint' each day. Idleness was a cardinal sin in pioneer times.

Elegance is really a kind of control.

Elegance is a kind of control.

She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge enters the mind of the child.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Had she punished him enough? How could she be sure?

The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it.)

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

To my surprise, nineteenth-century folk, always presented as Puritan and narrow-minded, turned out also to be energetic, tough, and sociable. It made me realize that there are major social and personal advantages to be had if people are capable of controlling themselves, being disciplined, and, if necessary, sacrificing themselves for the greater good. In that respect, we people of today might be able to learn more from the Victorians than we think.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim.

Deciding which hands are worth playing and which hands are not is the first and most consequential choice a player makes. And pros are just better at that choice, playing a mere 15% to 25% of the two-card starting combinations they are dealt in Texas Hold'em. Compare that to an amateur, who will stick with their starting cards over half the time. In the battle of whether to hold 'em or fold 'em, amateurs usually hold 'em. Professionals usually fold 'em.

might have been absurd, but I was making the point that a necessary part of succeeding in poker is to fold some hands that might have won. To be good at the game you just have to learn to live with that. Playing every hand you are dealt is an easy and fast way to go broke since you would be playing too many hands that aren't profitable in the long run.

If our goal is to lose twenty pounds in six months, we can plan how to achieve that by imagining it's six months from now and we've lost the weight. What are the things we did to lose the weight? How did we avoid junk food? How did we increase the amount of exercise we were doing? How did we stick to the regimen?

At the highest speed I can sustain on the hills, about 14 minutes for a mile, I do not even try to think of anything else.

Biophilic design is an emerging discipline, but a handful of studies have begun to suggest that working and learning in buildings inspired by nature can grant some of the same benefits for cognition as actually being outdoors.

The best-remembered teachers are the tough ones, who discipline our intellects for the longest journeys.

An engineer is someone who washes his hands before going to the toilet.

Children: You spend the first 2 years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 telling them to sit down and shut-up.

I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I'm doing.

Professional athletes have been blessed by God.

It's easy to be just a basketball player, get paid and come here to do that. But to be professional about it is different.